Dick tracy, detective, 1945 saw morgan conway take over the title role, to take on splitface. While it feels like a serial on repeat, its a lot more spectacular then most serials made during the same period. Morton ralph morgan, who could become invisible, with the goal of destroying nyc with a giant tidal wave. In the movie dick tracy is a fbi agent where as in the comic strip he is a police detective.
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John piccori, as a mad scientist assisting the ringleader hams it up splendidly, and carleton young, as tracy s brother who is turned into a villain by the mad doctor, is wonderfully cold and unscrupulous. The scenes of giant waves hitting new york were recycled from the rko pictures film deluge. In this actionpacked chapter play, tracy battles the ghost, a fiendish master criminal who has the ability to make himself invisible. The ghost is a fiendish master criminal who has the ability to make himself invisible.
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