Very well executed

Let's be realistic.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A nefarious murderer known to Dick Tracy (Morgan Conway) only as "splitface" has a target of 14 victims, and it's up to Tracy, his bumbling associates and the feisty Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys) to find and stop him. There's spooky hypnotists, a creepy mortician (any other kind in old movies?) and a mysterious femme fatale (Jane Greer) whose nightclub owner father may or may not be hiding the hideous fiend (Mike Mazurki). Dick has an adopted son, here, a science wiz kid played with amusing over confidence (in the character, not the actor) played by Mickey Kuhn. Milton Parsons, playing the aptly named coroner "Deathridge", is totally deadpan and hysterical.The film starts off on a creepy note with a young woman being strapped on the street, deathly afraid as Splitface face, unseen, approaches. While no real motive other than revenge is given for these gruesome murders, that is insignificant in the way it that the film is presented. There are some terrific elements in the dark photography, and the final confrontation between Dick Tracy and Splitface is exciting. Morgan Conway, cast as the title character, was not as well accepted as the previous actor, Ralph Byrd, and after only two films would be let go from that part, but he does a good enough job in this film that I could have seen him continuing. Anne Jeffreys is definitely the best test to heart that I have ever seen, and her intermingling with the smartly made up Greer is delightfully catty. I can see how film producers would thus cast Greer as Femme fatales in the genre of film noir where she excelled. While the series only lasted for four films, I found all of them to be extremely enjoyable and fast-moving. It certainly could have lasted another half dozen or so.

This is a really good and fun comic crime thriller. It's worth watching if you like comic heroes and superhero type of films. This particular film might appeal to those that like crime noir.Dick Tracy is after a man calling himself Splitface. Splitface is a serial killer - and out to get 14 people in remembrance of his jury trial when he was put in prison for murder. Splitface is out of prison and now out to get revenge on those that put him there.Some interesting scenes with lots of action. The film is comic book-ish in it's way but not so much so that fans of crime noir could not enjoy the film. I'd say the film is more noir-ish than comic book-ish.8/10

A psychotic killer by the name of "Splitface" (Mike Masurki) is on the loose and is killing people of different backgrounds. What's even stranger is that extortion notes are found on the victims but the people who pay are still killed anyway. Even the mayor is being threatened and "Dick Tracy" (Morgan Conway) is being pressured to find the killer as soon as possible. Now, even though this is a rather short film (barely over an hour long) there is enough mystery and action to keep a person's attention throughout. Even so, the script was a little corny at times and the performances of all concerned were average at best. Other than that there really isn't too much to be said about this movie except that it was filmed in black and white and some viewers may not like it because they don't realize how popular Dick Tracy was back in the day. Still, it was an okay film and worth what little time was spent watching it.

Morgan Conway is the insensitive workaholic detective in this sub-par programmer. Mazurki as Splitface is good, but the rest of the cast is stagy and dull. The support is largely the same faces as in other Dick Tracy flicks, altho some play different characters.The plot follows Tracy as he tries to find a blackmailing killer. He gets mixed up with an occultist who has dark insight into the crimes. As usual, Tracy is actually not a very good detective, and only solves the crime by chance and endlessly tailing the suspects.The predictable plot has a fairly clever twist, altho there is some stupendously dopey dialog along the way. Who forgets someone who vows to one day kill you?