Movie review - RKO Dick Tracy#1 - "Dick Tracy, Detective" (1945) **

Ralph Byrd had played Dick Tracy for a serial over at Republic but when RKO wanted to make some feature films of the character he was injured so the studio went for Morgan Conway instead. Conway sounds a little like Humphrey Bogart and he's fine in the role. Mike Mazurki plays the villain Splitface, who is killing the jurors who sent him to prison. Regulars for the series included Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys), Dick's adopted son (Mickey Kuhn) and his parner Pat Patton (Lyle Latell). This is a decent enough mystery - Spitface is a strong villain and it hums along at a fair speed.