Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy (1937)

L'ennemi de Dick Tracy pour cette série est le chef du crime et le méchant mystérieux masqué Spider / the Lame One (les deux noms sont utilisés). Au cours de divers crimes, notamment en utilisant son aile volante et son arme sonore pour détruire le Bay Bridge à San Francisco et en volant un "avion rapide" expérimental, The Spider capture le frère de Dick Tracy, Gordon. Le serviteur de l'araignée, le Dr Moloch, effectue une opération cérébrale sur Gordon Tracy pour le transformer en mal. Episodes. 1. "L'Araignée attaque" ; 2. "Le Pont de la terreur" ; 3. "Voleurs de fourrures" ; 4. "La Mort dans le ciel" ; 5. "Frère contre frère" ; 6. Eaux dangereuses". 8. "Le Mystère de la ville fantôme" ; 9. "Bataille dans les nuages" ; 9. "Dans la stratosphère" ; 10. "Le Vaisseau en or" ; 11. "Poursuite dans le port" ; 12. "La Piste de l'araignée" ; 13. "Le Piège de feu" ; 14. "Le Diable blanc" & 15. "Les Frères réunis".

Date de sortie
1937-02-20
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (10)
Durée
4 h 50 min
Genres
Crime, Action, Comédie, Thriller
Réalisateur
Ray Taylor, Alan James
Collection
Dick Tracy Collection

Distribution

Anecdotes

  • Adapté de : Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy (1937) is a 15-chapter Republic movie serial starring Ralph Byrd based on the Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould. It was directed by Alan James and Ray Taylor.

Production

Dick Tracy was budgeted at $112,334 although the final negative cost was $127,640 (a $15,306, or 13.6%, overspend). It was the most expensive Republic serial until S O S Coast Guard was released later in the year.

It was filmed between 30 November and 24 December 1936 under the working titles Adventures of Dick Tracy and The Spider Ring. The serial's production number was 420.

In this serial, Dick Tracy is a G-Man (FBI) in San Francisco rather than a Midwestern city police detective as in the comic strip. Most of the Dick Tracy supporting cast and rogues gallery were also dropped and new, original characters used instead (for instance the characters of Tracy's girlfriend Gwen Andrews and his detective partner Mike McGurk were stand-ins for Tess Trueheart and Pat Patton respectively).

There were three sequels to this serial: Dick Tracy Returns (1938), Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939), and Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. (1941). They were all permitted by an interpretation of the original contract, which allowed a "series or serial". That meant that Dick Tracy's creator, Chester Gould, was only paid for the rights to produce this serial but not for any of the sequels.

George DeNormand as Dick Tracy (doubling Ralph Byrd)

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