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. <br /><br />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. <br />Credits <br />Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy <br />Anne Jeffreys as Tess Trueheart <br />Lyle Latell as Pat Patton <br />Rita Corday as Mona Clyde <br />Ian Keith as Vitamin Flintheart <br />Dick Wessel as Harry "Cueball" Lake <br />Douglas Walton as Percival Priceless <br />Esther Howard as Filthy Flora <br />Joseph Crehan as Chief Brandon <br />Byron Foulger as Simon Little <br />Jimmy Crane as Junior, Tracy's adopted son <br />Milton Parsons as Higby, assistant to Priceless <br />Skelton Knaggs as Rudolph, accomplice diamond cutter <br />Ralph Dunn as Policeman (uncredited)
