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Dick Tracy 1937 Serial (1937)

Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using his Flying wing and sound weapon to destroy the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stealing an experimental "Speed Plane", the Spider captures Dick Tracy's brother, Gordon. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.

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Top billed cast

Ralph ByrdDick Tracy
Kay HughesGwen Andrews
Smiley BurnetteMike McGurk
Lee Van AttaJunior
John PicorriMoloch
Carleton YoungGordon Tracy, after
Fred HamiltonSteve Lockwood
Francis X. BushmanChief Clive Anderson
John DilsonEllery Brewster [Chs. 1, 12]
Richard BeachGordon Tracy, before [Chs. 1, 12]

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