After two Morgan Conway installments, RKO replaced him (or Conway quit) with Ralph Byrne, who had played Dick Tracy in serials. Byrne is a little better than Conway but underwhelming. There's a new Tess Truehart... and the return of a supporting character from the previous film, the actor Vitamin Flintheart played by Ian Keith, who plays an important role... taking over an informer who has been killed.
This is similar in style to the first two - Tracy goes after a colourful killer on a rampage. In this case it's the Claw, played by Jack Lambert. He goes after a fake-blind beggar, played by Jimmy Conlin - the events leading up to his death are quite scar.
Imaginative direction by John Rawlins. Made with some care. But this series is missing it for me.
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