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Barely released from prison, Gruesome goes to Hangman's Knot saloon, where his former friend in crime, Melody, now plays the piano. Gruesome takes him to a plastics manufacturer, where X-Ray and a mysterious mastermind possess a secret formula and are hatching a sinister plot. Ignoring a warning not to touch anything, Gruesome sniffs a nerve gas which paralyzes him. He appears dead and is taken to the city morgue. Dick Tracy is at headquarters talking with college professor Dr. Tomic, a scientist who suspects someone is following him. In the morgue, Pat, Tracy's sidekick, has his back turned when Gruesome wakes up and knocks him out. Pat describes him to Tracy as looking a lot like the actor Boris Karloff.
At a bank where Tess Trueheart is located, Gruesome and Melody use nerve gas to incapacitate the customers and the security guard. They rob the homes of over 100,000 people and shoot a cop on the sidewalk before Tracy and his men arrive. Gruesome demands half of X-Ray's loot…or else. Tracy tries to learn the secret of the formula from Dr. Tomic's main assistant, Professor Learned, before going after Gruesome and his gang. It all ends in a shootout, with Gruesome shot dead by Tracy, then back to headquarters, where Tracy finds himself frozen by nerve gas just as he is about to kiss Tess.
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Directed by John Rawlins, produced by Herman Schlom, written by Chester Gould (characters), William Graffis and Robert E. Kent (story), starring Ralph Byrd as Dick Tracy (The Tough Square-Jaw Detective), Anne Gwynne as Tess Truehart. (Tracy's girlfriend, who witnesses the bank robbery), Boris Karloff as Gruesome (a corpse-like gangster), Skelton Knaggs as Rudolph X-Ray (the bespectacled henchman de Gruesome), Edward Ashley as Dr. Lee Thal (an interested party), June Clayworth as Dr. IM Learned (assistant to Professor Tomic), Lyle Latell as Pat Patton (Tracy's bumbling sidekick ), Tony Barrett as 'Melody' Fiske (a greedy, piano-playing thug), Jim Nolan as Dan Sterne (a curious diary). reporter), Joseph Crehan as Chief Brandon (Tracy's reliable boss), and Milton Parsons as Dr. A. Tomic (a US state physicist).
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Source: /"Dick Tracy meets Gruesome/" Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. March 17, 2013. Web. April 6, 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy_Meets_Gruesome.
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