Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

KARLOFF PETRIFIES THEM!

Part of Dick Tracy Collection

1947•1h 5m•5.3/10

ActionCrimeMysteryThriller

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.3/10(31)

A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.

Open in PickFlick

Production

RKO Radio Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff

Gruesome

Ralph Byrd

Ralph Byrd

Dick Tracy

Anne Gwynne

Anne Gwynne

Tess Trueheart

Edward Ashley

Edward Ashley

Dr. L.E. Thal

June Clayworth

June Clayworth

Dr. I.M. "Irma" Learned

Lyle Latell

Lyle Latell

Pat Patton

Tony Barrett

Tony Barrett

Melody

Skelton Knaggs

Skelton Knaggs

X-Ray

James Nolan

James Nolan

Dan Sterne

Joseph Crehan

Joseph Crehan

Chief Brandon

Milton Parsons

Milton Parsons

Dr. A. Tomic

Ernie Adams

Ernie Adams

Waiter at Hangman's Knot (uncredited)

Phil Arnold

Phil Arnold

Sneezing Bank Customer (uncredited)

Walter Bacon

Bar Patron (uncredited)

Lex Barker

Lex Barker

City Hospital Driver (uncredited)

Eddie Borden

Eddie Borden

Bank Customer (uncredited)

Robert Bray

Robert Bray

Sergeant (uncredited)

Robert Clarke

Robert Clarke

Fred (Police Analyst) (uncredited)

George Cooper

George Cooper

Stone (Bank Teller) (uncredited)

Suzi Crandall

Suzi Crandall

Blonde Bank Customer (uncredited)

More from Dick Tracy Collection

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy

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.

Dick Tracy

1937

5.2

Dick Tracy Returns

Dick Tracy Returns

Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.

Dick Tracy Returns

1938

5.8

Dick Tracy's G-Men

Dick Tracy's G-Men

A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.

Dick Tracy's G-Men

1939

3.7

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

1941

5.7

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy

Dick is faced with a series of brutal murders in which the victims, all from different social and economic backgrounds, are viciously slashed to pieces. Suspects abound but Tracy, getting a clue that there will be 15 murders in all, must find the common thread among the victims before more are killed.

Dick Tracy

1945

5.0

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

1946

5.3

Dick Tracy's Dilemma

Dick Tracy's Dilemma

Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.

Dick Tracy's Dilemma

1947

5.4

Recommended

Desert Dawn

Desert Dawn

A newly appointed small-town sheriff and his begrudging deputy get tangled up in a web of lies and corruption involving shady businessmen and the cartel while investigating the murder of a mysterious woman.

Desert Dawn

2025

6.5

Kill 'em All 2

Kill 'em All 2

Phillip and Suzanne are retired from the spy game, living peacefully off the grid. That's until their whereabouts are discovered by Vlad, the vengeful brother of their target from the first film.

Kill 'em All 2

2024

6.7

Trap House

Trap House

An undercover DEA agent and his partner embark on a game of cat and mouse with an audacious, and surprising group of thieves – their own rebellious teenagers, who have begun robbing from a dangerous cartel, using their parents' tactics and top-secret intel to do it.

Trap House

2025

6.6

Wire Room

Wire Room

New recruit Justin Rosa must monitor arms-smuggling cartel member Eddie Flynn — and keep him alive at all costs. When a SWAT team descends on Flynn’s home, Rosa breaks protocol and contacts the gangster directly to save his life. As gunmen break into the Wire Room and chaos erupts, Mueller and Rosa make a final, desperate stand against the corrupt agents and officials who seek to destroy evidence and kill them both.

Wire Room

2022

6.1

Absolution

Absolution

An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children. He is determined to leave a positive legacy for his grandson, but the criminal underworld isn’t done with him and won’t loosen their grip willingly.

Absolution

2024

5.9

Overdrive

Overdrive

Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.

Overdrive

2017

6.1

Hellfire

Hellfire

A drifter with a mysterious past arrives in a small town and finds the residents in the grip of a ruthless crime boss and realizes he has to help them.

Hellfire

2026

6.9

Brake

Brake

A Secret Service Agent is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures high-speed mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract needed information for their sinister plot.

Brake

2012

5.8

Rise of the Footsoldier 3: The Pat Tate Story

Rise of the Footsoldier 3: The Pat Tate Story

Notorious gangster, Pat Tate, rises through the ranks of Essex's criminal underworld. A prequel to the 'Rise of the Footsoldier' franchise.

Rise of the Footsoldier 3: The Pat Tate Story

2017

6.2

Sheroes

Sheroes

When four thick-as-thieves friends arrive in Thailand, they quickly find themselves in over their heads. Fighting to stay alive, they employ their unique set of skills and unleash their fierce loyalty in a heart-pumping battle for survival.

Sheroes

2023

5.9

The Substitute

The Substitute

When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.

The Substitute

1996

6.9

Dirt

Dirt

In search of a lifeline for his struggling off road racing team, a man takes on a young car thief looking for a second chance, but as their worlds collide, they must struggle to forge a successful alliance.

Dirt

2018

6.1

Similar Movies

Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon

Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.

Flash Gordon

1936

6.4

Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All

Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All

Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov travel to the planet Mongo to fight the evil emperor Ming the Merciless.

Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All

1982

6.0

The Forever Purge

The Forever Purge

All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.

The Forever Purge

2021

6.9

Destroy All Monsters

Destroy All Monsters

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.

Destroy All Monsters

1968

6.9

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

1966

6.3

Battle Royale II: Requiem

Battle Royale II: Requiem

It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.

Battle Royale II: Requiem

2003

5.0

Housefull 5

Housefull 5

A father writes his will — his son "Jolly" is going to get it all. But who is Jolly? The comedy unfolds as different people pose as the "real" Jolly on a cruise celebrating the father's birthday — where a murder takes place.

Housefull 5

2025

5.4

The War of the Gargantuas

The War of the Gargantuas

Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster, attacks the shores of Tokyo. While the Japanese military prepares to take action, Gaira's Gargantua brother, Sanda, descends from the mountains to defend his kin. A battle between good and evil ensues, leaving brothers divided and a city in ruins.

The War of the Gargantuas

1966

6.4

Road to Perdition

Road to Perdition

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.

Road to Perdition

2002

7.3

The Revenge of the Woman in Black

The Revenge of the Woman in Black

A psychotic man and an obsessed police officer make life unbearable for an unlucky actor by making him the scapegoat for a string of kidnappings.

The Revenge of the Woman in Black

1997

4.5

Scream 2

Scream 2

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

Scream 2

1997

6.5

Scream 3

Scream 3

As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.

Scream 3

2000

6.0

PickFlick Assistant

Hi! I'm your PickFlick Assistant. Ask me about movies, TV shows, IPTV sources, or anything about PickFlick.

Powered by CopilotKit