Dick Tracy (serial)

Dick Tracy 1937 is a 15Chapter Republic movie serial starring Ralph Byrd based on the Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould. It was directed by Alan James and Ray Taylor.

The above cast members appear in the opening credits in cameo display sequential pictures of each actor with hisher name and sometimes character name superimposed at the bottom of the screen for the first episode, followed by a listing of supporting players. Subsequent chapters simply listed the stars on one screen and the same supporting cast a second. This approach to cast display was used by Republic from its first serial through Haunted Harbor in 1944. Universal serials presented a similar approach to cast display until 1940, only in their case, the starcameos appeared with the firstepisodes, and subsequent episodes listed these names usually followed, on a scrolling cast list, by part, but not often all, of the supporting players who had been named on the episodes with the cameos. Occasionally, a new player or two might be added. Columbia only a few times adopted this approach to displaying the cast of its serials. Republic, Universal, Warner Bros. Pictures, and some independents also used star cameos in numbers of their bpictures during the 1930s.Dick Tracy was budgeted at 112,334 although the final negative cost was 127,640 a 15,306, or 13.6, overspend. It was the most expensive Republic serial until S O S Coast Guard was released later in the year. ........

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