Dick Tracy

This is a serial shown in chapters. Dick Tracy is up against a masked criminal ring. The man at its head calls himself the Spider. Nobody knows who he is. His people go after large targets. With a flying wing craft and a sound weapon they bring down the bridge at San Francisco. They also steal an experimental fast aeroplane. The Spider then takes Tracy’s brother Gordon. A doctor working for him operates on Gordon’s brain. The point is to turn him into one of the ring. After the operation Gordon goes over to the other side. That sets the two brothers against each other. The serial was adapted from the comic strip hero of the day. The chapters are built on chases and last moment escapes. Ralph Byrd and Kay Hughes appear in the two hundred and ninety minute serial, an American production Alan James and Ray Taylor finished in 1937.