Karloff as Gruesome is the only redeeming feature of this slow programmer. Ralph Byrd is Tracy here, and more wooden and less square-jawed than Morgan Conway. As usual, Tracy is basically a jerk, mistreating his fiancée and foster son Junior by frequently running out on them and making them wait for him, as if no one else in the city can work a murder.
The plot is the usual collection of scientists and thugs on a crime spree, with double-crosses among the bad guys. Gruesome gives him a run for his money, outwitting Tracy's detectives, using the amazing freeze gas, and just killing whoever gets in his way. The support is largely the same faces as in other Dick Tracy flicks, altho some play different characters.
The plot is the usual collection of scientists and thugs on a crime spree, with double-crosses among the bad guys. Gruesome gives him a run for his money, outwitting Tracy's detectives, using the amazing freeze gas, and just killing whoever gets in his way. The support is largely the same faces as in other Dick Tracy flicks, altho some play different characters.