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As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The first of four Dick Tracy films that were made by RKO Studios in the Forties is a straight action filled drama so unlike the live cartoon that Warren Beatty did and cast with a bunch of Hollywood names. Morgan Conway plays the square jawed detective with Anne Jeffreys as the eternally faithful and eternally exasperated Tess Truehart. If ever a man was wed to his job it was Dick Tracy as a homicide cop.The villain here is Mike Mazurki excellently cast as Splitface and one look at him and you know why he's named that. He's responsible for a string of brutal stabbings and those scars he bares both give the city fright, but also make him impossible to trace since they were acquired in prison and render him unrecognizable. He's picked a cross section of citizens as his targets and while I think the viewer will figure it out before Conway puts it together, it's still a lot of fun.A subsidiary villain in the film is Trevor Bardette playing a con man astrologer and hypnotist. Bardette has a real field day with the part.Dick Tracy Detective is a fairly good B film from RKO Studios and the cast looks like they're having a good time.

I put this in the same category with the other vaguely interesting B movies I watch when I want to go to bed soon. At least with this one I could tell who was the villain and what was going on--I get irritated with detective movies like Charlie Chan where even when I'm told whodunit I still don't know who that was because the actors look so similar. The plot was very simple. It gave me plenty of opportunity to look around, as it were, and observe other things. Don't you just love a good fall through a skylight? How about a creepy mortician? A sassy boy detective? A sassy and beautiful woman? I only have a few beefs with this movie. First, Dick was incredibly slow on the uptake about a jury being targeted, and I agree with another reviewer that anybody would remember a death threat. I had to look up online who Junior was because the movie expected us to know. I suppose Tess did more than just hang around in evening dress waiting for a meal out but we weren't told if she were independently wealthy or still working at the photography business that was in the comics. And why didn't Junior or Tess make the slightest attempt to escape captivity? We could have had a blazing row if they had used the kerosene lamp to good effect, but no. Very disappointingly nothing was burned down so Dick could rescue them at the last second from the inferno. Opportunity wasted. Perhaps it cost too much but they left the kerosene lamp in the scene anyway. Finally, Tess should have had a really intelligent and cutting last scene to make us feel better for her being so ignored and disrespected. That would have given Dick the opportunity to show us why she fell in love with him. Instead, we are left with the question of why in the world she puts up with this jerk and if they never spend any time together, why do they bother? We needed some reason to think he wasn't really so bad, that in some part of his soul he loved her dearly--or at all. What we got was the impression that her real relationship was with Junior and that her role was already mother and not wife. I hope they get that worked out before the wedding. I understand their relationship in the comics moved at glacial speed. Junior might be in college by then and they can at least be alone together when Dick manages to come home once in a while. I read that in the comics they had kids. Heaven knows how!

If you're expecting MALTESE FALCON you're in the wrong place. This first in the RKO Dick Tracy movies based on Chester Gould's hardboiled policeman is very faithful to the source material and a LOT of fun.The cast is well chosen and Morgan Conway looks like he stepped right off the comics page.What is unexpected is the inky black noirish camera work, something that was very rare for a B-picture. The entire series was entertaining, with Ralph Byrd replacing Conway for the third and fourth installments, and the two earliest entries were geared towards an adult audience as shown in the violence depicted.Pull the stick out of your crack, sit back and enjoy some very entertaining little films from a more innocent time, when our good guys were someone to look up to.

If you had given Dick Tracy's name to any police type in any movie of the forties, it would be indistinguishable. The fact is that while this is a modestly entertaining movie, the comic strip being of it is just not there. Where is the technology, the distinctive sense of the comic strip? It's just not there. There is some semblance of humor, the byplay among the other detectives and Tess's frustration with dating the great detective (she never gets to go to dinner), but it still doesn't reproduce the comic strip. All that considered, it's a decent movie with an interesting plot. Like so many Tracy characters, Split Face is carrying around his angst, wanting to get back at those who convicted him. He is nasty, but has the fatal flaw of carelessness. Tracy is pretty dull, but I was a religious reader of the comic strip as a child and liked his silence. His romantic relationship always seemed forced to me. A real comic book hero shouldn't have time for women, right.