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Anne jeffreys wearing a coat, leaned over a table staring eye to eye with and unknown actor sitting at the table in a scene from the film dick tracy vs cueball, 1946. Dick tracy allows his girlfriend tess to act as a buyer for the gems but his plan backfires when she is captured by the homicidal cueball. Anne jeffreys in dick tracy vs cueball getty images. The enraged cueball begins a savage hunt for revenge, killing the traitors and demanding dick tracys blood. On the run from the detective, the gang betrays their leader and attempts to flee the law. Cueball the following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total. Please be aware that this is a manufactured on demand disc that was created using a dvdrdisc. During his rampage, he tries to eliminate his archnemesis, dick tracy morgan conway, but the toughguy detective is more than ready to put up a fight. The first two films starred morgan conway, while in the later two ralph byrd reprised. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled.
The following year morgan also played dick tracy in. Dick tracy and the dirtythug known as splitface 1945. Cueball stars morgan conway as the famously unstoppable detective based on the eponymous 1930s comic strip character. Cueball expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by excon cueball, who then takes the gems and continues murdering people he believes are trying to swindle him.
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Download the tv guide app for iphone, ipad and android. Cueball, a 1946 bmovie programmer of chester goulds iconic comic strip crimefighter dick tracy, the yellowclad dogooder portrayed for the second and last time by sharpfeatured morgan conway squares off against baldpate menace cueball dick wessel, a vindictive criminal out to literally strangle his former, back. With morgan conway, anne jeffreys, lyle latell, rita corday. Dick tracy collection dick tracy detective dick tracy. Zoot radio, free old time radio show downloads of dick tracy dick tracy. Dick tracy is a comic strip featuring dick tracy, a hardhitting, fastshooting and intelligent police detective. Cueball 1946 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Dick tracy vs cueball 1946 full movie detective movie.
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