Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)

Directed by

John Rawlins

Genre

film noir

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A detective hunts a killer known as the Claw who wears a steel hand. The mystery involves a stolen fur coat and a vicious murder.

fast-pacedgrittytensenoirishsuspensefulold-fashionedsnappydark

What happens

Dick Tracy's Dilemma, released in the United Kingdom as Mark of the Claw, is a 1947 American action film based on the 1930s comic-strip character of the same name created by Chester Gould. Ralph Byrd stars as Dick Tracy, reprising the role after Republic Pictures's 1937 Dick Tracy serial and its three sequels. Preceded by Dick Tracy vs. Cueball, the film is the third installment of the Dick Tracy film series released by RKO Radio Pictures. The follow-up to Dick Tracy's Dilemma was Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947), the fourth and last entry in the RKO series. Dick Tracy, the character next made the move to television. The program ran for 39 episodes in the 1950–1951 season. Ralph Byrd might have played Dick Tracy in further adventures had he not died unexpectedly, of a heart attack, on August 18, 1952, at age 43. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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