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Language. English. Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (also known as Dick Tracy Meets Karloff and Dick Tracy's Amazing Adventure (UK) ) is a 1947 American thriller film directed by John Rawlins and starring Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd and Anne Gwynne. The film is the fourth and final installment of the Dick Tracy film series released by RKO Radio Pictures.
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome: Directed by John Rawlins. With Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne, Edward Ashley. Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- John Rawlins
- 1947-09-26
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome is a 1947 American crime-thriller film written by the late Robert E. Kent, the late William Graffis, the late Robertson White, and the late Eric Taylor, directed by the late John Rawlins; starring the late Boris Karloff. It is the fourth and final entry in the RKO Radio Pictures' Dick Tracy film tetralogy. Dick Tracy hunts for a corpse-like gangster who uses an ...
Dick Tracy (a.k.a. Dick Tracy, Detective) (1945) was followed by Dick Tracy vs. Cueball in 1946, both with Morgan Conway as Tracy. Ralph Byrd returned for the last two features, both released in 1947: Dick Tracy's Dilemma and Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome. Gruesome is probably the best known of the four, with the villain portrayed by Boris Karloff.
Dick Tracy (Ralph Byrd) and Tess Trueheart (Anne Gwynne) are called in to investigate a series of intriguing bank robberies where the customers/staff are poleaxed by a nerve gas that enables the robbers to calmly rob the place without anyone even knowing. Of course, at the bottom of the dastardly scene is "Gruesome" - one of the livelier ...
List of deaths in Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947). This is the fourth and final entry in a film tetralogy. (See also: Dick Tracy (1945), Dick Tracy vs. Cueball, and Dick Tracy's Dilemma) TBA TBA
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Gruesome was the main villain in the 1947 feature film Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome. Gruesome was played by the actor Boris Karloff . In the film, Gruesome was an escaped convict who discovered a scientist's secret formula for a gas that induced a temporary paralysis that simulated death. Gruesome used this gas to rob a bank.
