Dick Tracy - 15-Episode Serial
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Actor: John Picorri, Kay Hughes, Lee Van Atta, Ralph Byrd, Smiley BurnetteDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 329 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Marengo Films
Movie Reviews of Dick Tracy - 15-Episode Serial
Movie Review: The first Dick Tracy Serial
Summary: 5 Stars
Dick Tracy - 15-Episode Serial is four hours, forty-nine minutes, and fifty-four seconds and was released in theaters on February 20, 1937. This version of the movie was distributed through Marengo Films. This was the first of four Dick Tracy serials to be released by Republic Pictures. Ralph Byrd portrayed Dick Tracy in all four serials. There are some major difference between the serial and the comic strip. In the movie Dick Tracy is a FBI agent where as in the comic strip he is a police detective. Though there is a Junior in the movie, but this Junior is not Tracy's step-son. There is no Pat Patton, Tess Trueheart, or Vitamin Flintheart. The 15-Episode Serial averages out to nineteen minutes and twenty-two seconds per episode. Dick Tracy is after the Spider Ring or Gang which is lead by the Lame One. During each episode with the exception of the first one the Lame One attempts to rob, blow, or capture someone is foiled by Dick Tracy with or without the assistant of his staff. Also you have the famous cliff hanger, with the exception of the last chapter, that Dick Tracy is in a jam but manages to get out of it at the beginning of the next chapter. There are some goofs in this serial. In the opening chapter the Lame One fires four shots in a train cabin where five men are seated but no one is killed. One must then assume that the Lame One used blanks. In Chapter twelve it is one of the train passengers that shoots the lame but misses all four times. In another chapter Dick Tracy is tossed a rope with a lifesaver attached to it, but in the next scene when he is pulled up on the boat the lifesaver is not attached to the rope. In chapter fourteen in the hospital room the man lying in bed has bandages wrapped around his face and both hands. In the next scene the man right arm is in sling with bandages wrapped around it, but the bandages on the left hand are gone. Overall this is not a bad serial; granted this is the first and only one that I ever watched or own. Dick Tracy - 15-Episode Serial gets an AAA+++.
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1. The Spider Strikes (29 min 31s)
2. The Bridge of Terror (19 min 11s)
3. The Fur Pirates (20 min 25s)
4. Death Rides the Sky (20 min 49s)
5. Brother Against Brother (19 min 14s)
6. Dangerous Waters (16 min 52s)
7. The Ghost Town Mystery (20 min 11s)
8. Battle in the Clouds (18 min 40s)
9. The Stratosphere Adventure (18 min 00s)
10. The Gold Ship (18 min 28s)
11. Harbor Pursuit (16 min 35s)
12. The Trail of the Spider (17 min 39s) -- Re-Cap Chapter
13. The Fire Trap (16 min 45s)
14. The Devil in White (20 min 35s)
15. Brothers United (16 min 59s)
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