Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball is a 1946 film starring Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy. It is the second part of the Dick Tracy quadrilogy.

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?

Cast

• Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy - The unstoppable detective on the search for Cueball.
• Dick Wessel as Harry "Cueball" Lake - A murderous diamond thief. Gets his name after his big, round head. He strangles his victims with a leather hatband.
• Anne Jeffreys as Tess Trueheart - Dick Tracy's girlfriend.
• Lyle Latell as Pat Patton - Tracy's bumbling partner.
• Ian Keith as Vitamin Flintheart - An aged thespian and friend of Tracy.

Cast notes

• Trevor Bardette, who played the doomed Professor Starling in the first Dick Tracy film makes a quick cameo as Cueball's first victim Lester Abbott.
• 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.
• The underground workshop movie set in this movie was also used in movie "Confessions of Boston Blackie". Ironically enough, the hero in the Boston Blackie movie series is a former jewelry thief turned private detective.

External links

• Dick Tracy vs. Cueball at the Internet Movie Database
• Dick Tracy vs. Cueball is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]