Dick Tracy is a 1945 film based on the Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy is a comic strip featuring Dick Tracy, a hard-hitting, fast-shooting and intelligent police detective. Created by Chester Gould, the strip made its debut on October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror. It was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate...

 comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 created by Chester Gould. It is the first feature film adaptation of the comic strip, and the first part of a quadrilogy. The strip had previously been turned into a number of serials.

Plot

Dick Tracy (Morgan Conway

Morgan Conway

Morgan Conway was an American actor, best known for his portrayals of Dick Tracy.-Early life and career:...

), a supremely intelligent police detective, must solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims, all from different social and economic backgrounds, are viciously slashed to pieces by the one known as Splitface. Suspects flourish but Tracy must find the common link of extortion and revenge before more are killed.

Main cast

• Morgan Conway
  Morgan Conway
  Morgan Conway was an American actor, best known for his portrayals of Dick Tracy.-Early life and career:...
  
   - Dick Tracy - The tough detective, who let's nothing stand in the way of justice.
• Anne Jeffreys
  Anne Jeffreys
  Anne Jeffreys is an American actress and singer.- Career :Born Anne Carmichael in Goldsboro, North Carolina, Jeffreys entered the entertainment field at a young age; her initial training was in voice , but she decided as a teenager to sign with the John Robert Powers agency as a junior model.Her...
  
   - Tess Trueheart - Tracy's girlfriend, who often falls victim to her boyfriends workoholism.
• Mike Mazurki
  Mike Mazurki
  Mike Mazurki was an Austrian-born American actor and professional wrestler who appeared in over 100 movies. His towering 6' 5" presence and intimidating face usually got him roles playing tough guys, thugs, strong men, and gangsters.Mazurki was born as Mikhail Mazurkevych in Tarnopol, Galicia,...
  
   - Alexis "Splitface" Banning - A psychotic ex-con who seeks revenge. His weapon is a sharp surgical knife. He has a big disfiguring scar across his face.
• Jane Greer
  Jane Greer
  Jane Greer was a film and television actress who was perhaps best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past.-Career:...
  
   - Jane Owens - A suspect.
• Lyle Latell - Pat Patton - Tracy's bumbling assistant.
• Joseph Crehan
  Joseph Crehan
  Joseph Crehan was an American film actor. He appeared in over 300 films between 1916 and 1965.He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and died in Hollywood, California from a stroke.-Selected filmography:...
  
   - Chief Brandon - The reliable chief of police.
• Mickey Kuhn
  Mickey Kuhn
  Mickey Kuhn is an American actor. His first fame came in playing the role of Beau Wilkes in the 1939 motion picture Gone With The Wind. Kuhn is one of the last surviving cast members from the movie.- External links :...
  
   - Junior - Tracy's adopted son.
• Trevor Bardette
  Trevor Bardette
  Trevor Bardette was an American film actor.He made over 172 movies and seventy-two TV appearances in his career. Bardette appeared in several memorable episodes in Adventures of Superman. In the 1951 show, The Human Bomb, he played the sinister title character...
  
   - Prof. Linwood J. Starling - A strange medium, and also a suspect.
• Morgan Wallace
  Morgan Wallace
  Morgan Wallace , was an American actor. He appeared in 28 films between 1914 and 1946, including It's a Gift and My Little Chickadee starring W.C. Fields and Mae West....
  
   - Steve Owens - A stern businessman.
• Milton Parsons - Deathridge the Undertaker - A mysterious, skeletal suspect.
• William Halligan - Mayor - The worried mayor of Chicago.

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