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Dick Tracy S1 Ep3 The Fur Pirates
A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective’s brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick.
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Season 1 Ep.3: The Fur Pirates
Chasing his brother and the Spider Ring by motorboat, Dick Tracy is crushed between two moored ships moving closer together.
Reason of the public domain status: Never registered in the Library of CongressDick Tracy (Ralph Byrd who plays the detective) is investigating a series of strange murders, crooks with a spider mark on their foreheads are turning up dead, when another body shows up, that of an industrialist who is throwing a party for orphans at the time. Tracy quickly solves the crime with the aide of Junior, an orphan who was attending the party. Tracy captures one of the murderers, but another one gets away. Since Junior saw the villain and can identify him, he’s not safe on his own so Tracy takes custody of the boy. It turns out that the man behind the spider-mark killings is an underworld mastermind, known only as The Spider. Anyone who crosses him ends up dead, and he’s immune to being shot, which gives rise to the rumor that he isn’t human. The Spider’s face is never shown, only his feet, distinguishable because one leg is much shorter that the other (a result of Polio, something would have been obvious to viewers in the 30′s). His slow, shuffling, clomping walk is his signature, and both ominous and creepy. The man that Tracy captured was one of The Spider’s henchmen and a note is delivered to the governor that if the killer isn’t released, The Spider will destroy a bridge that is about to open, using a new supersonic weapon that he’s developed. The Spider’s men capture Dick Tracy’s brother, Gordon and Moloch, an evil scientist in the employ of the criminal mastermind, operates and turns him evil and sets him against his very own brother. So starts the cat-and-mouse game between Dick Tracy and The Spider!Cast and Crew:
Director: Alan James, Ray TaylorStars:
Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette
Original Air Date: 1937
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User reviews:
Now I’ve never read a Dick Tracy comic. They were before my time. But I had a good time watching this serial. It moved well and wasn’t all just crashes and fight scenes. There are a lot of pretty cool effects considering when this was made. The flying wing was my favourite. It looked like an old Northrop YB-35 with the props in front—and was obviously supposed to be bigger. Nice model though. Some other notable effects were the zeppelin crash and the shaking Golden Gate bridge. Some other decent stuff I liked was the speeded-up secret message on the phonograph disc, the mad doctor with the cat (he was cool), the little belt morse code transmitter (reminded me of Batman’s utility belt), and Gwen (I liked how she could fly a plane, and do most other stuff the men did—what surprised me is that they didn’t have her get captured by the spider gang at some point). One particularly goofy effect gave me a laugh: At the end of one chapter Dick Tracy’s plane crashes into a bridge. The beginning of the next chapter shows the crash and then Dick getting up out of the plane wreckage, brushing off his clothes, and walking off. Pretty hokey there. And it seems Dick was fond of double-parachuting to get out of trouble—sorta funny. The stories were not bad. There was plenty of plot to keep me interested and it was plausible—except maybe for a couple of the escapes after the disastrous endings of the previous chapter like I mentioned above. Now it seems the spider gang tried its hand at almost every type of crime before finally getting squashed by Dick Tracy. Let’s see…there was bridge-wrecking, plane-motor-stealing, counterfeiting (attempted anyway), illegal brain surgery (on Tracy’s bro), gold stealing (2 instances of this…the prospector’s mine and the ship), and stealing jewellery. And of course there are the typical fist fights that everyone expects. As usual, everyone involved gets up and walks away unharmed, without even any dirt or wrinkles on their clothes (as per the unwritten code of all serials it seems). Gun battles occur frequently, but no one notable ever gets hit (well Dick got hit at the end of one chapter, but by the next chapter he was miraculously healed). Additionally, there is no lack of car, boat, airplane, and zeppelin crashes. I really did have a good time with this serial. I gave it an 8 because it had decent stories along with some better-than-average effects. Old movie fans, and anyone who likes serials, shouldn’t miss this one.
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