Dick Tracy - 15-Episode Serial dvd movie.|
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List Price: $9.99 Our Price: $9.99 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 20 February, 1937 DVD Release : 28 August, 2001 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A Strange Serial |
| As serials go, this isn't bad, although it would be nice if the picture quality were a little less fuzzy. This is a very strangely constructed serial, unlike any other I can recall. There's no carry-over from chapter to chapter. There's an overlap: each chapter ends with a fake cliff-hanger which is resolved in the beginning of the following chapter(usually by some deus-ex-machina that we just didn't happen to see in the previous chapter), but whatever the previous chapter was about is resolved and each new chapter poses a new problem. It's the same good guys and bad guys throughout, but each time, the bad guys are after something different, like the plans for a supersonic plane or a treasury engraver who can forge counterfeit plates or (even!) a shipment of stolen furs! Obviously there's nothing deep or meaningful here; just fun. If you like old serials (not that there are too many new ones!), go for this. | |
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