Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) more movies like this

directed by John Rawlins
featuring Ralph Byrd, Boris Karloff, Anne Gwynne, Lyle Latell, June Clayworth, Skelton Knaggs

Befitting his status as a genre star, Boris Karloff earns top billing over leading man Ralph Byrd in RKO's final Dick Tracy caper. The former Frankenstein monster plays an escaped convict masterminding a daring bank robbery. To get in and out of the bank without being noticed, the gang uses an asphyxiating gas that leaves anyone inside momentarily ...

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S.O.S. Coast Guard [Serial] (1937) more movies like this

directed by Alan James, Ford I. Beebe, William Witney
featuring Ralph Byrd, Bela Lugosi, Maxine Doyle, Herbert Rawlinson, Richard Alexander

In his third of four action serials, horror star Bela Lugosi played Boroff, an internationally notorious fiend who's attempting to pawn off his deadly invention, a disintegrating gas, to the highest bidder. Before the gas can be manufactured, however, Boroff must go in search of certain hard to come by ingredients and the villain is thwarted at ...

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Dick Tracy Returns [Serial] (1938) more movies like this

directed by Jon English, William Witney
featuring Ralph Byrd, Lynne Roberts, Charles B. Middleton, Jerry Tucker, David Sharpe

The 15-chapter Republic serial Dick Tracy Returns also represents the return of Ralph Byrd in the role of Chester Gould's stalwart comic-strip detective. For the purposes of the film, Tracy has joined the G-Men in pursuit of criminal mastermind Pa Stark (Charles Middleton) and his killer brood. Things get off to an rousing start when Stark and his ...

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Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947) more movies like this

directed by John Rawlins
featuring Ralph Byrd, Lyle Latell, Kay Christopher, Jack Lambert, Ian Keith

Ralph Byrd returns to the character he had originated ten years earlier in the serial Dick Tracy. This time, Chester Gould's immortal comic strip hero is called in to handle a fur theft. The owner of Flawless Furs, Humphreys (Charles Marsh), has just signed on with the Honesty Insurance Company whose investigator, Cudd (Al Bridge), made him change ...

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Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939) more movies like this

directed by Jon English, William Witney
featuring Ralph Byrd, Irving Pichel, Ted Pearson, Phyllis Isley, Walter Miller

Dick Tracy's G-Men is the second of three Republic serials starring Ralph Byrd as Chester Gould's granite-jawed comic strip plainclothesman. Tracy's foe in this one is notorious international spy Zarnoff (Irving Pichel), who will stop at nothing to sabotage America's military defense system. Not even death can stay Zarnoff from his appointed ...

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Desperate Cargo (1941) more movies like this

directed by William Beaudine
featuring Ralph Byrd, Carolyn Hughes, Julie Duncan, Jack Mulhall, I. Stanford Jolley

This action film, follows the travails of two chorus girls as they try to leave South America and get back home. Their journey begins when they are stranded in a Latin American village. They talk the purser of a clipper ship into letting them board his clipper ship. He has taken a fancy to one of the women, so it wasn't too difficult. Upon the ...

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The Trigger Trio (1937) more movies like this

directed by William Witney
featuring Max "Alibi" Terhune, Ralph Byrd, Sandra Corday, Robert Warwick

In this western, the Three Mesquiteers must find a killer and his band after they murder an official from the State Agricultural Service who had come to investigate an outbreak of anthrax. The killer is fearful that the official would quarantine his entire herd. Unfortunately for the foolish rancher, if the herd is not isolated, all of his cows ...

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Thunder in the Pines (1949) more movies like this

directed by Robert Edwards
featuring George Reeves, Ralph Byrd, Greg McClure, Michael Whalen, Denise Darcel

Future "Superman" George Reeves and former "Dick Tracy" Ralph Byrd co-star in Thunder in the Pines. The stars play a pair of eternally bickering loggers in Tall Timber country. Both vie for the attentions of Gallic charmer Yvette (Denise Darcel), who promises to wed the logger who cuts down the most trees (this is not a pro-eco piece!) All sorts ...

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Misbehaving Husbands (1941) more movies like this

directed by William Beaudine
featuring Ralph Byrd, Harry Langdon, Esther Muir, Luana Walters, Gayne Whitman

Misbehaving Husbands was intended as a comeback vehicle for silent-film comedy great Harry Langdon, who after his fall from grace in the 1920s had to content himself with cheap 2-reelers, featured roles and screenwriting assignments. Langdon plays henpecked store-owner Henry Butler, who decides to save money by designing his window displays ...

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Drums of the Desert (1940) more movies like this

directed by George Waggner
featuring Ralph Byrd, Lorna Gray, Peter George Lynn, Mantan Moreland

Twixt and tween his Dick Tracy movies, Ralph Byrd plays a Foreign Legionnaire in Drums of the Desert. Byrd and his pal Peter George Lynn alternately fight off the Riffs and fight each other over the affections of lovely Lorna Gray. Gee...we always thought that people joined the Foreign Legion to forget women. Monogram's resident black comedian ...

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Duke of the Navy (1942) more movies like this

directed by William Beaudine
featuring Ralph Byrd, Veda Ann Borg, Stubby Kruger, Herbert Corthell, Margaret Armstrong

Ralph Byrd, known far and wide for his movie interpretation of Dick Tracy, trades his civvies for Navy blues in PRC's Duke of the Navy. On furlough with his pal Cookie (played by swimming champion Stubby Kruger), Breezy Duke (Byrd) is mistaken for millionaire candy manufactuer John T. Duke. While in this guise, Breezy is inveigled into joining a ...

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Stage Struck (1948) more movies like this

directed by William Nigh
featuring Kane Richmond, Audrey Long, Conrad Nagel, Ralph Byrd, John Gallaudet

Though it is not so frankly identified in the film, an insidious white-slavery racket motivates the plotline of Monogram's Stage Struck. Double-dyed villain Nick Mantee (Kane Richmond) manages to make a good living by preying on young girls who've come to the Big City in hopes of becoming actresses. Mantee has built up a stable of disillusioned ...

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Born to Be Wild (1938) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Kane
featuring Ralph Byrd, Doris Weston, Ward Bond, Robert Emmett Keane, Bentley Hewlett

Absolutely no relation to the 1960s rock-n-roll tune of the same name, Born to be Wild is a fast-paced Republic programmer boasting some fairly impressive credits. Ralph Byrd, better known as moviedom's Dick Tracy, plays truck driver Steve Weston, while Ward Bond, usually seen as a bad guy in the late 1930s, costars as Weston's friend and partner ...

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Blake of Scotland Yard [Serial] (1937) more movies like this

directed by Robert F. Hill
featuring Herbert Rawlinson, Ralph Byrd

Silver-haired silent film leading man Herbert Rawlinson plays Scotland Yard inspector Sir James Blake in this 15-episode serial. Blake has financed a death ray designed by young inventor Ralph Byrd. The ray will be a boon to mankind (sure!) so long as it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Those hands belong to "The Scorpion", a hooded mystery ...

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