Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con Cueball, who then takes the gems and continues murdering people he believes are trying to swindle him. Dick Tracy allows his girlfriend Tess to act as a buyer for the gems but his plan backfires when she is captured by the homicidal Cueball. Decent B picture.<br/><br/>Was never a huge fan of Dick, but I have to say these RKO pictures are rather alluring.<br/><br/>Surprised there weren't more.<br/><br/>The Plot.<br/><br/>Expensive diamonds are stolen. <br/><br/>Before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con Cueball. <br/><br/>He then takes the gems and continues murdering people he believes are trying to swindle him. <br/><br/>Dick Tracy allows his girlfriend Tess to act as a buyer for the gems but his plan backfires when she is captured by the homicidal Cueball. Dick Tracy must solve the murder of the courier of $300,000 worth of diamonds. Only clue of the strangulation are bits of a material embedded in the neck. Soon two more killings and the same material. Tracy discovers that a specially ordered hat with a band around it is the murder weapon. From this Tracy deduces the killer - Cueball, that bald and passionless man. Friend or foe, old or young, no one is immune from the clutches of Cueball.<br/><br/>Most of the scenes are at night which lead to a dark and gloomy feeling of dread in the city. This feeling adds to the sense of evil that Dick Tracy battles. A fine film with a fitting outcome for Cueball.
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