Dick Tracy's G-Men
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| Produced by | Robert M Beche |
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| Cinematography | William Nobles |
| Distributed by | Republic Pictures |
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Running time | 15 chapters / 263 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $159,876 (negative cost: $163,530) |
Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939) is a 15-Chapter Republic movie serial based on the Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould. It was directed by William Witney and John English.
This serial was the fifteenth of the sixty-six produced by Republic, and the third Dick Tracy serial (there would be one more, Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc., in 1941). As with the other three Dick Tracy serials, Ralph Byrd plays the lead. This time he faces Irving Pichel as Zarnoff, the spy with a vendetta. Future Academy Award winner Jennifer Jones (credited here under her birth name of Phyllis Isley) co-stars as Gwen Andrews.
"G-Man" is a contemporary slang term for an agent of the FBI. In the comic strip, Dick Tracy is a detective in the police force of an unnamed Midwestern city resembling Chicago, but this was changed for the serial.