Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome is a 1947 film about a detective who goes up against a gangster who robs banks using a nerve gas.
 * Directed by John Rawlins. Written by Robert E. Kent.

Horror Man Traps Super-Sleuth! (taglines)

Pat Patton

 * I tell you, if I didn't know better I'd swear we were doing business with Boris Karloff.


 * I'm sitting here, see, writing out this report on the stiff. All of a sudden, blackout! Something hit me here: a crowbar or a small bulldozer"


 * (looking at Gruesome in the morgue) "So what did the big lug die of, a broken heart?"

Dialogue

 * X Ray: What is your friend's name?
 * "Melody" Fisk: Gruesome.
 * X Ray: Isn't he.

Taglines

 * Horror Man Traps Super-Sleuth!
 * He's Enough to Scare Even Tracy!

Cast

 * Boris Karloff - Gruesome
 * Ralph Byrd - Dick Tracy
 * Anne Gwynne - Tess Truehart
 * Skelton Knaggs - Rudolph X-Ray
 * Edward Ashley - Dr. Lee Thal
 * June Clayworth - Dr. I.M. Learned
 * Lyle Latell - Pat Patton
 * Tony Barrett - 'Melody' Fiske
 * James Nolan - Dan Sterne
 * Joseph Crehan - Chief Brandon
 * Milton Parsons - Dr. A. Tomic