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The movie “Dick Tracy’s Dilemma”, released in the United Kingdom as “Mark of the Claw”, is a 1947 American pulp action film based on the 1930s comic strip character of the same name created by Chester Gould. Ralph Byrd stars as Dick Tracy, reprising the role after Republic Pictures’s 1937 Dick Tracy serial and it’s three sequels. The film is the third installment of the Dick Tracy film series.

Steve Michel (Jack Lambert) and his henchmen hijack a valuable shipment of furs, but botch the job by killing a night watchman. Police detective Dick Tracy (Ralph Byrd) is brought in to investigate the fur thefts connected with murder with the assistance of his partner Pat Patton (Lyle Latell) as well as the flamboyant Vitamin Flintheart (Ian Keith) and “Sightless” (Jimmy Conlin). This leads him to look into possible higher-ups who may have ordered the robbery. Tracy soon learns that the person behind it all is Steve Michel, a hook-wielding criminal who calls himself “The Claw.” Before Tracy can unravel the bigger picture and the larger forces at work, the Claw dispatches more victims in a gruesome manner. Finally, when Tracy shows up to arrest him, the two engage in a high-speed chase. While on the run, the Claw electrocutes himself by plunging his hook into electrical wires while trying to kill Tracy.

Directed by John Rawlins, produced by Herman Schlom, written by Chester Gould (characters) and Robert Stephen Brode (screenplay), starring Ralph Byrd as Dick Tracy ( the tough, square jawed detective), Kay Christopher as Tess Trueheart (Tracy’s love interest), Lyle Latell as Pat Patton (Tracy’s bumbling assistant), Jack Lambert as Steve ‘The Claw’ Michel (A quiet, compulsive killer. His right hand is a steel hook, and his left leg is lame. He has an extreme fondness for cats), Ian Keith as Vitamin Flintheart (Tracy’s thespian friend, who joins him because of guilt over the death of Sightless), Bernadene Hayes as Longshot Lillie (the Fence), Jimmy Conlin as Sightless the ‘Blind’ Begger (a little beggar who fakes blindness to sell pencils. Participates as Tracy’s paid spy and is exposed and killed by The Claw), William B. Davidson as Peter Premium (V.P. Honesty Insurance), Tony Barrett as Sam (a henchman) and Tom Keene as Fred (a henchman).

Stars: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, and Alan Ladd
Director: Elliott Nugent

Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor’s office.

Wild Thing’s comment……..

Joe Biden and Harris and the rest of these nightmares on the left are destroying our country.

They HATE America and and never care about the American people…..never.

Stars: Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore
Director: Byron Haskin

Through a fluke circumstance a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even it if means murder!

Convict’s Code is a 1939 American film directed by Lambert Hillyer. The movie (also known as “Paroled to Exile”) is about a man, who’s framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. When he is let out on limited parole, he sets out to clear his honor and find the real criminals.

Directed by Lambert Hillyer, produced by E.B. Derr and Frank Melford, written by John W. Krafft, starring Robert Kent as Dave Tyler, Anne Nagel as Julie Warren, Sidney Blackmer as Gregory Warren, Victor Kilian as Bennett, Norman Willis as Russell, Maude Eburne as Mrs. Magruder, Ben Alexander as Jeff Palmer, Pat Flaherty as Sniffy, Carleton Young as Pete Jennings, Howard C. Hickman as Warden, Joan Barclay as Elaine and Harry Strang as Tom Lynch.