Dick Tracy's Dilemma is a 1947 American crime-thriller film written by Robert Stephen Brode and directed by the late John Rawlins. It is the third entry in the RKO Radio Pictures' Dick Tracy film tetralogy.
Dick Tracy tries to track down a hook-handed man who, along with two accomplices, robbed a shipment of animals furs and killed the night watchman guarding it.
Victims[]
- Night Watchman Hawks - Stabbed in the skull by The Claw with his hook hand off-camera.
- "Sightless" - Stabbed in the skull by The Claw with his hook hand off-camera.
- Sam - Inadvertently shot six times in the back by Fred when The Claw used him as a meat shield.
- Fred - Killed by The Claw off-camera.
- Steve "The Claw" Michel - Electrocuted to death when he accidentally touched a wire from a high voltage generator with his hook hand.
Deaths[]
- Total - 5
- All Men
Kill Count[]
- Steve "The Claw" Michel - 4 (Deceased)
Notes[]
- Although, the film is based around Dick Tracy, it is not an adaption of one of Chester Gould's stories.