Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

Starring:Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne, Edward Ashley, June Clayworth, Lyle Latell, Tony Barrett, Skelton Knaggs, Jim Nolan, Joseph Crehan, Milton Parsons, Jason Robards Sr., Lex Barker, George Lloyd, Robert Bray, George Cooper (VIII), Robert Clarke, Bruce Mitchell, Phil Arnold, Eddie Borden
Director: John Rawlins
Studio: K-Tel Entertainment
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- For the Budget Conscious May I Suggest...
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Dick Tracy Collection: (Dick Tracy, Detective / Dick Tracy vs. Cueball / Dick Tracy's Dilemma / Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome)
Starring: Morgan Conway , Anne Jeffreys , Lyle Latell , Rita Corday , and Ian Keith
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Release Date: 1999-10-26 |
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"Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome" starring Boris Karloff. Interview with creator Chester Gould. "Dick Tracy in B Flat" starring Bing Crosby (Tracy), Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore & Jimmy Durante. 4 Radio Broadcasts.
Customer Reviews:
For the Budget Conscious May I Suggest..........2006-11-12
I just watched two of these Tracy flicks, Dick Tracy Detective and Dick Tracy meets Gruesome and both were pretty good. They are Universal productions so unlike a Monogram or similar studio, these have a decent production quality.
I wont review the movies here but if your a Tracy fan you'll enjoy them. I got three of these flicks on the 50 Movie Pack Mystery ASIN: B0001HAGTW here at Amazon, and it was half the price of this package, its only 3 of the 4 films but you get another 47 movies to make up for it and the prints were decent.
Dick Tracy: The Ultimate Collection.......2001-02-20
If you liked the Dick Tracy comics, you'll love these 4 films. The first 2 on disc 1 star Morgan Conway, a little known actor, who does look the part. The other 2 on disc 2 bring back Ralph Byrd who played the role in 4 cliff hanger serials in the 30s. Plus there are some nice little extras after each movie on each side of each disc. So put on your yellow trenchcoats it's time for some grade B mysteries of grade A caliber.
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- Boris Karloff Is The Main Attraction
- 1940's Nostalgia
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (B&W)
Starring: Boris Karloff , Ralph Byrd , Anne Gwynne , Edward Ashley , and June Clayworth
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Boris Karloff Is The Main Attraction.......2003-05-04
In DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME the famous detective is able to trick Gruesome by placing a false story in the newspapers about another criminal who is going to squeal on Gruesome. Boris Karloff plays the part of Gruesome and he dominates the movie. Ralph Byrd has the role of Dick Tracy and Anne Gwynne is Tess Truehart.
The film was a big success for a "B" movie in both the United States and in Great Britain.
1940's Nostalgia.......2001-02-02
Boris Karloff certainly looks the part as the recently released convict named Gruesome. The nerve gas story is corny as is the bank robbery scene especially when one bloke is frozen just as he is about to sneeze. Ralph Byrd returns as Dick Tracy and he later starred in the early 50's TV series. People who are familiar with the B movies of the 1940's will recognise character actors Milton Parsons and Skelton Knaggs as a professor and his assistant respectively. If you feel like going on a nostalgia trip watch this.
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Suspense Classics 4-Movie Pack - Dick Tracy Detective, Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, Dick Tracy vs. Cueball, Shadow Strikes
Starring: Morgan Conway , Anne Jeffreys , Mike Mazurki , Jane Greer , and Lyle Latell
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
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Boris Karloff plays a theif Gruesome, who renders his victims helpless with nerve gas.
Customer Reviews:
Entertaining "B" movie.......2005-11-19
I don't know what the prints from other "public domain" labels (Alpha, Brentwood, etc.) look like, but you can't beat this one for this low price. While you certainly have to lower your expectations whenever you get one of these public domain titles, this is much better than average ("average" being washed out and grainy), so it's good enough for me. (All the Digiview titles read "Digitally Remastered" on the packaging. Ha!) This is an entertaining entry in RKO's short-lived Dick Tracy series, and a good example of efficient B-movie filmmaking.
"I'd swear we were doing business with Boris Karloff!".......2005-11-01
In days of old, a B-movie did not arrive with high expectations. It had to not distract from the main feature and be decent enough that the audience not demand their money back. Pretty low goals.
Now that these films have remained around and available to buy, we still don't expect much. All I hope for is that they won't cost a lot (they don't), and that training my eyes on the television screen while they're playing ends up being more entertaining than if I had shifted my gaze a meter to the left and watched the wall for the ninety minutes instead.
By these admittedly low standards, DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME succeeds. But it gains as much value from its ineptitude as it does from its genuinely good points. This is not a problem if all you seek is bare entertainment.
As you may have guessed, given that this is a crime/thriller based on a pulp comic strip, there are a huge number of familiar clichés present. There's tough guys, see? And wise-guys, see? And classy broads, see? And heels who turn their sentences into questions by sticking the word "see" at the end of them, see?
This makes the movie fun on one level, though if you're not in the mood for this, each successive stereotypical touchstone makes the movie that much more tedious. However, you really should be in the mood for this -- or at least expecting this sort of thing -- just by looking at the title.
Let's keep talking about the title, because that allows us to discuss the main characters: Dick Tracy and Gruesome. Dick Tracy is ostensibly the star of the film, but Gruesome gets top billing in the cast list. Understandably, this is because Gruesome is played by Boris Karloff and Dick Tracy is not. I'm no great expert in Dick Tracy lore, but I was slightly disappointed by the character in this movie. Tracy is one of the blandest detectives I've ever seen. He's not a smooth talker; he's doesn't posses a formidable mind. In fact, he doesn't even have any cool gadgets (at least not in this movie).
That said, Gruesome isn't particularly interesting, either. If he wasn't played by Boris Karloff, I'm sure he wouldn't have appeared in the title. He's an ordinary thug, who's a bit more cruel than the other villains in this movie, but nothing compared to classic baddies in other films. (To be fair, there is one thing that distinguishes him. He accidentally dies and then comes back to life early in the movie. But that has nothing to do with his character, and everything to do with the mysterious chemical he ingests. You may think that dying and coming back to life would add a supernatural flavor to the film, but it doesn't. Gruesome dies horribly, is rescued from the afterlife, and then it's never ever mentioned again.)
The story involves Gruesome and a band of very generic bad guys. They use a factory called "Wood Plastics Inc." as their hideout. That name must be nicely inconspicuous, as it should blend in with all the other plastic companies that make their product out of wood. Gruesome and his gang obtain a chemical gas that induces paralysis. Naturally, they use this gas to rob a bank. As an aside, I must point out that this is a seriously powerful chemical. It paralyzes everything! It freezes a man who's about to sneeze, causing him to be stuck with his nose in the air and a pained expression on his face. It freezes gravity and stops the fabric on people's clothes from moving.
I'm joking, of course. What the gas actually does is to nip outside the film projector and hit the pause button. This allows the criminals to sneak around the paused footage and help themselves to the bank's contents.
Since it's up to Tracy to solve the crime, he turns to the police detective's secret weapon: SCIENCE! These scenes are the most entertaining moments in the film. The screenwriters were obviously aware of this thing we humans call "science", but were a bit confused as to how it actually works. For example, a physicist's job is to create experimental chemicals, presumably just to see what will happen (apparently chemists do not exist in the Dick Tracy universe). When a smart detective is confronted with a new, strange, unknown chemical compound, his initial method of determining its properties is to eat it.
Still, one gets the idea that scientific accuracy was not high on the priorities list. And the writers take the opportunity of inventing appropriately goofy names for the science folks. The physicist is named Dr. A. Tomic and is assisted by the able Professor Learned, who is -- shock -- a girl! (A broad that digs science, see?)
The plot moves in very expected motions. The only thing that makes this movie in any way unpredictable is the fact that pieces of it don't make any sense and therefore defy prediction. I think the best way to enjoy this film is to take it as a series of individual scenes. Don't worry how the current scene will affect the next one and don't worry about how the last scene affects this one. Broken into pieces this way, the movie hangs together fine.
I'm reviewing the Digiview Productions version and the picture/sound quality are surprisingly good. There are no extras, but since they only charge you a buck, the fact that you can use the movie side of the DVD disc as a shaving mirror is more bonus than you should expect.
Although this is the only Dick Tracy movie I've seen, I'm guessing there are better ones out there. That said, this movie will have you laughing at it as often as you laugh with it. And if all you're looking for is a laugh, then you should be at least satisfied with this.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome/Dick Tracy, Detective
Starring: Boris Karloff; Morgan Conway
Director: Multi
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Double Feature, 2 Movies For The Price Of 1
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- TRACY MY HERO
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome / Dick Tracy, Detective
Starring: Dick Tracy
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Release Date: 2000-11-28 |
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DICK TRACY DETECTIVE-TRACY MEETS GRUESOME (DVD MOVIE)
Customer Reviews:
TRACY MY HERO.......2005-05-05
I have always loved mystery movies and this DVD has two! If you like the old films like the Thin Man, The Shadow, Mr.Wong Detective... you will love these two movies.
Congratulations to Marengo Films... these are very nicely done. This DVD is a bargain.
Dick Tracy DVD.......2000-12-13
This is a must for Dick Tracy Fans! This DVD released by Marengo Films pairs Dick Tracy Meets Grusome with Boris Karolff and Dick Tracy Detective. The presentation is very well done, the DVD cover has the old comic book look from the 1940's. All the detail is there, the quality is especially good and for the price you can't go wrong!
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome/Dick Tracy Dilemma
Starring: Gruesome
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2 Movies on 1 DVD!
Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
Boris Karloff plays a theif Gruesome, who renders his victims helpless with nerve gas.
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Starring: Boris Karloff , Ralph Byrd , Anne Gwynne , Edward Ashley , and June Clayworth
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Customer Reviews:
Boris Karloff Is The Main Attraction.......2003-05-04
In DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME the famous detective is able to trick Gruesome by placing a false story in the newspapers about another criminal who is going to squeal on Gruesome. Boris Karloff plays the part of Gruesome and he dominates the movie. Ralph Byrd has the role of Dick Tracy and Anne Gwynne is Tess Truehart.
The film was a big success for a "B" movie in both the United States and in Great Britain.
1940's Nostalgia.......2001-02-02
Boris Karloff certainly looks the part as the recently released convict named Gruesome. The nerve gas story is corny as is the bank robbery scene especially when one bloke is frozen just as he is about to sneeze. Ralph Byrd returns as Dick Tracy and he later starred in the early 50's TV series. People who are familiar with the B movies of the 1940's will recognise character actors Milton Parsons and Skelton Knaggs as a professor and his assistant respectively. If you feel like going on a nostalgia trip watch this.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
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