Dick Tracy vs. Cueball is a 1946 American action film based on the 1930s comic strip character of the same name created by Chester Gould. The film stars Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy in the second installment of the Dick Tracy film series released by RKO Radio Pictures. The villain, Cueball, is a murderous diamond thief who gets his nickname from his big, round head.
Plot: Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con Cueball, who then takes the gems and continues murdering people he believes are trying to swindle him. 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.
Credits
Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy
Anne Jeffreys as Tess Trueheart
Lyle Latell as Pat Patton
Rita Corday as Mona Clyde
Ian Keith as Vitamin Flintheart
Dick Wessel as Harry "Cueball" Lake
Douglas Walton as Percival Priceless
Esther Howard as Filthy Flora
Joseph Crehan as Chief Brandon
Byron Foulger as Simon Little
Jimmy Crane as Junior, Tracy's adopted son
Milton Parsons as Higby, assistant to Priceless
Skelton Knaggs as Rudolph, accomplice diamond cutter
Ralph Dunn as Policeman (uncredited)
