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Dick Tracy vs. Cueball is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Gordon Douglas released in USA on 18 december 1946 with Morgan Conway
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)
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Add to a movie listDick Tracy vs. Cueball is a 1946 American pulp action film based on the 1930s comic strip character of the same name created by Chester Gould. The dark and moody film noir stars Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy in the second installment of the Dick Tracy film series released by RKO Radio Pictures. Years later, Dick Tracy vs. Cueball was included as one of the choices in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
^ "Dick Tracy vs. Cueball: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
^ "Dick Tracy vs. Cueball: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
Synopsis
Luxurious diamonds are stolen but before the thief can safely hide them aboard an ocean liner he is strangled by ex-conman Cueball. Cueball takes the valuable diamonds and is given refuge by Filthy Flora, madam of the Dripping Dagger Bar, and then continues on murdering people that he believes are trying to double-cross him. Dick Tracy allows his attractive girlfriend Tess to act as a buyer for the diamonds but is put in grave danger when Cueball vows to eliminate . . .Actors
Morgan Conway
(Dick Tracy)
Dick Wessel
(Harry 'Cueball' Lake)
Esther Howard
(Filthy Flora, Dripping Dagger Proprietor)
Anne Jeffreys
(Tess Trueheart / Blythe Belmonte)
Rita Corday
(Mona Clyde, Sparkle's Secretary)
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