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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1947 · 65 mins · English
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- Directed by
- John Rawlins
- Starring
- Boris Karloff, Joseph Crehan, Edward Ashley, James Nolan, Harry Harvey, Lex Barker
A gang of criminals—including a piano player and the hulking ex‑convict “Gruesome”—steal a scientist’s formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who inhales it. Gruesome accidentally inhales the gas, is thought dead, placed in a morgue, then revives and escapes, drawing the attention of detective Dick Tracy. When the gang later uses the paralyzing gas to rob a bank, Tracy devotes himself to stopping them.
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