Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
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| Dick Tracy vs. Cueball | |
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| Directed by | Gordon M. Douglas |
| Produced by | Herman Schlom |
| Written by | Characters Chester Gould Story Luci Ward Screenplay: Dane Lussier Robert E. Kent |
| Starring | Morgan Conway Dick Wessel |
| Music by | Phil Ohman |
| Cinematography | George E. Diskant |
| Editing by | Philip Martin |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  December 18, 1946 |
| Running time | 62 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Dick Tracy |
| Followed by | Dick Tracy's Dilemma |
| IMDb profile | |
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball is a 1946 film starring Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy. It is considered by many Dick Tracy fans to be the best of RKO's Dick Tracy films.
[edit] Plot summary
Luxurious diamonds are stolen but before the thief can safely hide them he is strangled by ex-conman Cueball (Dick Wessel). Cueball takes the diamonds and continues on murdering people that he believes are trying to double-cross him. Dick Tracy (Morgan Conway) allows his girlfriend Tess to act as a buyer for the diamonds but what happens when Cueball vows to eliminate Dick Tracy?
[edit] Cast
- Trevor Bardette, who played the doomed Professor Starling in the first Dick Tracy film makes a quick cameo as Cueball's first victim Lester Abott.
- Milton Parsons appears in three of the four Dick Tracy films. In the first, he played the mysterious Mr. Deathridge, in this one, he played Higby, Mr. Priceless's assistant, and in the last film, Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, he played Dr. A. Tomic. His characters died in two of the pictures.
- Ian Keith does a perfect impersonation of John Barrymore as Vitamin Flintheart.
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