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Dick Tracy S1 Ep4 Death Rides the Sky
A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective’s brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick.
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Season 1 Ep.4: Death Rides the Sky
Dick Tracy transfers to an unmanned, remote plane to save Junior but it is shot down by the Spider Ring.
Reason of the public domain status: Never registered in the Library of CongressDick Tracy (Ralph Byrd who plays the detective) is investigating a series of strange murders, crooks with a spider mark on their foreheads are turning up dead, when another body shows up, that of an industrialist who is throwing a party for orphans at the time. Tracy quickly solves the crime with the aide of Junior, an orphan who was attending the party. Tracy captures one of the murderers, but another one gets away. Since Junior saw the villain and can identify him, he’s not safe on his own so Tracy takes custody of the boy. It turns out that the man behind the spider-mark killings is an underworld mastermind, known only as The Spider. Anyone who crosses him ends up dead, and he’s immune to being shot, which gives rise to the rumor that he isn’t human. The Spider’s face is never shown, only his feet, distinguishable because one leg is much shorter that the other (a result of Polio, something would have been obvious to viewers in the 30′s). His slow, shuffling, clomping walk is his signature, and both ominous and creepy. The man that Tracy captured was one of The Spider’s henchmen and a note is delivered to the governor that if the killer isn’t released, The Spider will destroy a bridge that is about to open, using a new supersonic weapon that he’s developed. The Spider’s men capture Dick Tracy’s brother, Gordon and Moloch, an evil scientist in the employ of the criminal mastermind, operates and turns him evil and sets him against his very own brother. So starts the cat-and-mouse game between Dick Tracy and The Spider!Cast and Crew:
Director: Alan James, Ray TaylorStars:
Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette
Original Air Date: 1937
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Superb serial. The only one that matches it in quality is the first Flash Gordon. The production values are exceptional and eclipse many better known B movies. Ralph Byrd is perfectly cast in the title role. The only explanation I can think of for some viewers to rate this any lower than an “A” is that they just haven’t seen very many serials. One of the few efforts in this line that actually has some atmospheric touches and, as another commenter has pointed out, the special effects are genuinely good. Folks who don’t really like serials are….well, they’re folks who don’t like serials (probably don’t much like Christmas either). For those who do like serials, this is like a trip to the circus. Good action and WAY better than usual script and acting. As movies go, this probably only deserves a 7 but for a serial it deserves a perfect 10.
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