Dick Tracy - Chapter 15 - Brothers United - 1937 [English]

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. Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and masked mystery villain The Spider/The Lame One (both names are used) and his Spider Ring. Playlist: ******************    • Dick Tracy - 1937 [English] [Complete Serial]   Details: ****************** Directed by: Alan James, Ray Taylor Produced by: Nat Levine, J. Laurence Wickland (Associate) Written by: Morgan B. Cox, George Morgan, Barry Shipman, Winston Miller, Chester Gould (comic strip) Music by: Harry Grey Cinematography: William Nobles, Edgar Lyons Edited by: Helene Turner, Edward Todd, William Witney Distributed by: Republic Pictures Release date: February 20, 1937 (U.S. serial) Running time: 15 chapters / 290 minutes (serial) Country: United States Language: English Cast: ****************** Starring cast Ralph Byrd as Dick Tracy Kay Hughes as Gwen Andrews Smiley Burnette as Mike McGurk Lee Van Atta as Junior John Picorri as Dr Moloch Richard Beach as Gordon Tracy (pre-operation in Chapter 1) Carleton Young as Gordon Tracy (post-operation in Chapter 1) Fred Hamilton as Steve Lockwood Francis X. Bushman as Clive Anderson Supporting cast John Dilson as Ellery Brewster Wedgwood Nowell as H. T. Clayton Theodore Lorch as Paterno Edwin Stanley as Walter Odette (The Spider/ The Lame One) Harrison Greene as Cloggerstein Herbert Weber as Tony Martino Buddy Roosevelt as Burke George DeNormand as Flynn Byron K. Foulger as Kovitch Notes: ****************** 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 There were three sequels to this serial: Dick Tracy Returns (1938), Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939), and Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. (1941) Source / More: ****************** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tr...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Byrd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi... ******************