Easily the most fun of RKO's four Dick Tracy movies - partly because of Boris Karloff as the villain but also because the plot finally is more outlandish to suit the colourful baddies. In this case there's a gas which makes people freeze.
Ralph Byrne was an underwhelming Tracy but I didn't grow up on him. Anne Gwynne is back as Tess who has a little more to do apart from have Tracy cancel their dates. It has handsome RKO production values. But after WW2 TV started to make B pictures less profitable so the series was cancelled.
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