Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
1947 : 1 hour 5 minutes
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Director: John Rawlins
synopsis
Violence and armed conflict provides the background. Boris Karloff is great as the criminal, Gruesome, who can hold people in suspended animation with his nerve gas.
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