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Dick Tracy

  • 1937
  • Approved
  • 1h 10min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,5/10
682
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Ralph Byrd in Dick Tracy (1937)
AzioneCommediaCrimineFamigliaThriller

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick.A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick.A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick.

  • Regia
    • Alan James
    • Ray Taylor
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Chester Gould
    • Barry Shipman
    • Winston Miller
  • Star
    • Ralph Byrd
    • Kay Hughes
    • Smiley Burnette
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,5/10
    682
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Alan James
      • Ray Taylor
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Chester Gould
      • Barry Shipman
      • Winston Miller
    • Star
      • Ralph Byrd
      • Kay Hughes
      • Smiley Burnette
    • 18Recensioni degli utenti
    • 13Recensioni della critica
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    Ralph Byrd
    Ralph Byrd
    • Dick Tracy
    Kay Hughes
    Kay Hughes
    • Gwen Andrews
    Smiley Burnette
    Smiley Burnette
    • Mike McGurk
    Lee Van Atta
    • Junior
    John Picorri
    John Picorri
    • Moloch
    • (as John Piccori)
    Carleton Young
    Carleton Young
    • Gordon Tracy, After
    Fred Hamilton
    • Steve Lockwood
    Francis X. Bushman
    Francis X. Bushman
    • Chief Clive Anderson
    John Dilson
    John Dilson
    • Ellery Brewster [Chs. 1, 12]
    Richard Beach
    • Gordon Tracy, Before [Chs. 1, 12]
    Wedgwood Nowell
    Wedgwood Nowell
    • H.T. Clayton [Chs. 8-9]
    Theodore Lorch
    Theodore Lorch
    • Patorno [Chs. 1, 12]
    Edwin Stanley
    Edwin Stanley
    • Walter Odette
    Harrison Greene
    • Cloggerstein…
    Herbert Weber
    • Tony Martino [Ch. 1]
    Buddy Roosevelt
    Buddy Roosevelt
    • Whitney Burke
    George DeNormand
    George DeNormand
    • Henchman Flynn [Chs. 2-3, 5]
    • (as George De Normand)
    • …
    Byron Foulger
    Byron Foulger
    • Korvitch [Chs. 1, 12]
    • (as Byron K. Foulger)
    • Regia
      • Alan James
      • Ray Taylor
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Chester Gould
      • Barry Shipman
      • Winston Miller
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    Recensioni degli utenti18

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    9Vigilante-407

    Not quite the comic strip...but one great serial!

    This is one of the better serials I've seen...especially of the less glitzy pre-1940 productions. There are few (in fact only one I think) cliffhanger ending that doesn't ring true (the kind where we see the action...and then the resolve shows different actions happening in the next episode). That puts it up real high in my book on just that point.

    There isn't all that much care put to keeping the serial like the comic strip. Tracy became a g-man instead of a city police detective and gone are the maladjusted and malformed villains of his colorful rogues gallery. The Lame One, the villain of this chapterplay, doesn't compare to the grotesqueries of The Brow or Little Face.

    Ralph Byrd is excellent as Tracy...in fact he IS Dick Tracy. Forget Morgan Conway's forgettable appearances in Dick Tracy's Dilemma and Dick Tracy Vs. Cueball (a horrible film)...and especially forget the primary color extravaganza that Warren Beatty put out. Ralph Byrd does them both in...stolid, straight forward and eager for action.

    I would rate this serial right up there with other great chapterplays, like The Adventures of Captain Marvel, The Masked Marvel and the like.
    5jalilidalili

    Laughable - but it wasn't meant to be.

    After watching all 15 episodes I have to tell you that this Dick Tracy seems to have paved the way for some of today's action heroes taken from the classic comics. The plot line is simply put - silly (a big crime ring cooperates with foregin goverments, wants to blackmail their own government, brainwashes people...). There seem to be hundreds of things going on and not a single case is solved. Tracy comes in, gets in a fight, the evil scheme is spoiled (case closed), bad guys escape, Dick follows them and get's in terrible danger. End of episode, right before Dick is about to die a horrible death. The next episode opens with a long revision of the previous story and Dick escapes unharmed. Meets with friends and the new problem arises. They investigate for a few minutes and then the same story all over. All right, the effects were awesome for the time when this was made and the ideas for how the villains planed to take charge were probably highly original back then (but were copied ever sense), still, not a single episode seems to have any depth. It was just jumping from one quick and shallow attempt by the Lame one to do whatever it was he wanted to do (there never seemed to be a grand plan behind his actions) to another. All in all, if they wouldn't repeat those previous episode scenes at the beginning of each episode and if the episodes took some time to develop a story it might have been good. Now (especially after watching it at once) as one long Dick Tracy session, I was really disappointed by the shallowness, but pleasantly surprised by the great effects.
    8ptb-8

    A special effects zinger!

    Republic Pictures were clearly hitting their stride in superior (and super) serial production with this quite sensational 15 chapter crime-terrorism drama made in 1936, released in early 1937. For any faults: too long as 12 chapters would do; the tedious antics of the infantile Smiley Burnette, there is a dozen truly astonishing and eerie/creepy moments that easily compensate. The first episode is so weird, and on a huge screen in a giant old theater full of screaming kids (or even adults) has several hair raising scenes where master evildoer The Lame One has maximum effect. The first chapter ending sees The fabulous Lydecker Brothers in full big budget special effects mode on a thrill set piece aboard the Golden Gate Bridge. The opening two chapters also features an astonishing triangular flying wing plane (looks like a cross between a stealth bomber and a flying sandwich) which for its day is a genuine masterpiece of inventive and graphic/realistically clever sci fi imagination. The recent film SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW owes a huge debt of imagination to this one flying apparatus alone. Republic clearly intended this serial to play to adults and it is not a G rated serial at all...given the menace, action and violence. It has three great villains one of whom is Gordon Tracy (Dick's brainwashed bro) who, after getting the treatment, sports a very fetching Bride Of Frankenstein hair stripe along with a mean scar. Another hideout menace is Moloch, a cat patting hunchback akin to a lost Uncle of Peter Lorre. Incredible action stunt sequences abound and very inventive use of miniatures and special effects..the chapter endings of 9 and 10 especially with a huge blazing Zeppelin and then a sheet of hull metal swinging from a repaired ship are very well thought out. Often the resolves cheat with Dick just getting up and running off, or rolling out of the way, but given the very high standard of the rest of all parts of this huge and complex production it was a major step forward for Republic at the time proving their willingness to make a serial for all ages that employed excellent craftsmen...especially the incredible Lydecker Brothers they inherited in their merger with Mascot Pictures. Remove them and the serial industry would have been all chases and fights. No wonder this serial was so successful it offered a big marker for two more Dick Tracy epics in 38 and 39. Excellent! Beware of dud dvds though, the one I saw was awful and bleached, in good quality this 15 chapter pre-noir horror serial must be a knockout.
    4Sleepin_Dragon

    Long drawn out.

    Dick Tracy takes on a powerful criminal known as The Lame one (the irony.)

    I have to be honest, I found this a real chore, I was gifted Dick Tracy returns on dvd, so sat through this one again to catch up, I found this such a long, drawn out slog.

    The copy I had was very grainy, the recent viewing of it was much sharper, the picture had definitely been cleaned up somewhat, that did improve the experience a little.

    Some of the dialogue is cringe worth, I know it's donkey's years old, but some of the moments are so agonisingly corny. I found the storyline a little odd, but it could definitely have been condensed down somewhat.

    Some of the special effects look ok considering the year it was made, and some of the model shots hold up well.

    Ralph Byrd would play the part of Dick Tracy for a long time, I think he got better in the part with time, I thought this was a bit of a rough start.

    4/10.
    8springfieldrental

    Dick Tracy's First Screen Appearance

    Today's youth has no idea that smartwatches (I-Watches) began with detective Dick Tracy, a comic strip character first drawn by Chester Gould in 1931. His two-Way Wrist Radio inspired the invention of the mobile phone-and then the I-Watch. Six years after his newspaper debut, Dick Tracy's first portrayal on the screen was released by Republic Pictures in February 1937's "Dick Tracy: Chapter One-The Spider Strikes."

    "The 1937 serial seems to be the first work to pit the hero against a foe of marvelous metaphenenomenality; e.g. A villain," noted film reviewer Gene Phillips. The villain, named the Spider or the Lame One, is the head of the crime syndicate named the Spider Ring. One of Spider's associates is a mad scientist with a hunched back, "Moloch," who surgically operates on honest men to convert them into criminal pawns. The Spider also assigns top inventors to construct an acoustic pulsating weapon capable of knocking down the strongest structures, specifically the Golden Gate Bridge. In Dick Tracy's first episode, the Spider threatens to use his 'flying wing' plane containing his weapon to destroy the massive bridge during its opening ceremony.

    The "Dick Tracy" serial didn't quite follow the backgrounds of some of Gould's comic characters. The artist was originally inspired by U. S. Treasury Department Agent Eliot Ness to base his strip around. His Tracy was a detective in a Midwestern city, similar to Chicago. But in the Republic Pictures series, Tracy (Ralph Byrd) is a special agent for the FBI operating out of San Francisco. In Chapter One, "The Spider Strikes Back," Tracy's brother Gordon (Carleton Young) is kidnapped by the Spider gang and Moloch transforms him into a criminal.

    Actor Ralph Byrd starred as the detective throughout the 15-episode series. So successful was the first "Dick Tracy" serial, Republic Pictures churned out three additional Tracy series: 1938 "Dick Tracy Returns," 1939 "Dick Tracy's G-Men" with future Academy Award Best Actress winner Jennifer Jones as Gwen Andrews, and 1941 "Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc." Author William Cline in his book 'In the Nick of Time,' noted that the serials were "unexcelled in the action field. The four Dick Tracy adventures from Republic must stand out as classics of the suspense detective thrillers, and the models for many others to follow." Four feature films on the detective, including Warren Beatty's portrayal in 1990 "Dick Tracy," followed after the final Republic serials concluded. Ralph Byrd starred in two of them, 1947's "Dick Tracy's Dilemma" and "Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome" the same year. Byrd's characterization as a FBI agent was physically demanding for the number of action scenes he had to labor through. His early death in 1952 at the age of 43, from either a heart attack or cancer, occurred when he was waiting in his car for his wife Virginia to finish shopping.

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      Chapters: 1. The Spider Strikes, 2. The Bridge of Terror, 3. The Fur Pirates, 4. Death Rides the Sky, 5. Brother Against Brother, 6. Dangerous Waters, 7. The Ghost Town Mystery, 8. Battle in the Clouds, 9. The Stratosphere Adventure, 10. The Gold Ship, 11. Harbor Pursuit, 12. The Trail of the Spider, 13. Fire Trap, 14. The Devil in White, 15. Brothers United.
    • Blooper
      In the first chapter Junior knocks on the window to get Tracy's attention crying "Mr. Tracy, Mr. Tracy!", but after he tackles one of the fleeing villains he says " Aren't you Dick Tracy?".
    • Citazioni

      Moloch: Brother against brother - one good, one evil. Ahh, I wonder which will win?

    • Curiosità sui crediti
      "Oscar & Elmer" are given final cast credits in the opening sequence.
    • Connessioni
      Edited into Dick Tracy (1990)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 20 febbraio 1937 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • Adventures of Dick Tracy
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Republic Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti(Studio)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Republic Pictures
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    • Tempo di esecuzione
      • 1h 10min(70 min)
    • Colore
      • Black and White
    • Proporzioni
      • 1.37 : 1

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