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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Vitamin Flintheart experiences this when he realises that his highhanded dismissal of Sightless, and sending him away from Tracy's home, resulted in Sightless being murdered.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: A little over 24 hours. The film starts with the robbery of the fur warehouse. The insurance company has to produce the furs or pay out on the policy within 24 hours, and when Tracy visits Humphreys the next night, Humphreys says the deadline is almost up. No more than two or three elapse from that visit to the climax.
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* HoistOnHisOwnPetard: The Claw suffers a HighVoltageDeath when he attempts to stab Tracy with his HookHand and his hook gets snared in the high voltage wires of the electrical substation where he is hiding.
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* HoistOnHisOwnPetard: HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Claw suffers a HighVoltageDeath when he attempts to stab Tracy with his HookHand and his hook gets snared in the high voltage wires of the electrical substation where he is hiding.
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* HoistOnHisOwnPetard: The Claw suffers a HighVoltageDeath when he attempts to stab Tracy with his HookHand and his hook gets snared in the high voltage wires of the electrical substation where he is hiding.
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* CatScare: Multiple times the Claw's henchman Sam is startled by one of the Claw's multitude of cats jumps out at him as he is opening a door.
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* LeftForDead: Sam and Fred find the Claw passed out in the cab of truck: bleeding out from the gunshot woud Pat gave him. Deciding he is as good as dead, they [[NoHonorAmongThieves abandon him and plan to sell the loot and split the take only two ways]]. However, they underestimated the will to live of a man who survived being sliced up the prop of a Coast Guard cutter.
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* LeftForDead: Sam and Fred find the Claw passed out in the cab of truck: bleeding out from the gunshot woud Pat gave him. Deciding he is as good as dead, they [[NoHonorAmongThieves abandon him and plan to sell the loot and split the take only two ways]]. However, they underestimated the will to live of a man who survived being sliced up by the prop of a Coast Guard cutter.
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* LeftForDead: Sam and Fred find the Claw passed out in the cab of truck: bleeding out from the gunshot woud Pat gave him. Deciding he is as good as dead, they [[NoHonorAmongThievs abandon him and plan to sell the loot and split the take only two ways]]. However, they underestimated the will to live of a man who survived being sliced up the prop of a Coast Guard cutter.
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* LeftForDead: Sam and Fred find the Claw passed out in the cab of truck: bleeding out from the gunshot woud Pat gave him. Deciding he is as good as dead, they [[NoHonorAmongThievs [[NoHonorAmongThieves abandon him and plan to sell the loot and split the take only two ways]]. However, they underestimated the will to live of a man who survived being sliced up the prop of a Coast Guard cutter.
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* LeftForDead: Sam and Fred find the Claw passed out in the cab of truck: bleeding out from the gunshot woud Pat gave him. Deciding he is as good as dead, they [[NoHonorAmongThievs abandon him and plan to sell the loot and split the take only two ways]]. However, they underestimated the will to live of a man who survived being sliced up the prop of a Coast Guard cutter.
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* NoHonorAmongThieves: When the Claw's henchmen Sam and Fred find him wounded and apparently dying, Sam persuades the reluctant Fred to leave him to die so they can sell the loot and only have to split two ways.
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* ThemedAliases: The fake names the Claw and his crew use to disguise their truck all flower-based, such as 'Daisy Storage' and 'Rosebud General Delivery': possibly because their hideout is on Primrose Street.
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: After Sightless is murdered, Vitamin Flintheart impersonates him and takes his place on his pitch outside The Blinking Skull to keep watch for suspicious characters.
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* BrickJoke: At the start of the film, Tracy is searching The Blinking Skull for a crook called Hatchet Harry when he is called away to investigate the fur robbery. At the end, Tracy is about to take Tess, Pat and Vitamin out to dinner to celebrate the close of the case when Dolan comes in and tells him that Hatchet Harry has just been sighted at the docks. Tracy and Pat take off, leaving Tess and Vitamin twiddling their thumbs.
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* DownInTheDumps: The final showdown between Tracy and the Claw take place in the junkyard the Claw is using as a hideout.
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* EvilCripple: The Claw was run over by a Coast Guard cutter when he was a bootlegger, and the prop severed his right hand and crippled his leg. He now has a HookHand and walks with a shambling limp.
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* PsychoForHire: The Claw is an ex-bootlegger and brutal killer, just released from prison, who is hired to act as muscle for the fur robbery. He uses his HookHand to kill at the drop of a hat for any pretext.
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* PetTheDog: PyschoForHire The Claw has a soft spot for stray cats: taking them in and caring for them.
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* PetTheDog: PyschoForHire PsychoForHire The Claw has a soft spot for stray cats: taking them in and caring for them.
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* PetTheDog: PyschoForHire The Claw has a soft spot for stray cats: taking them in and caring for them.
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* ConcealmentEqualsCover: Averted. Tracy shoots at the Claw through the thin wooden paneling he is hiding behind; forcing him to dive for cover.
* HighVoltageDeath: The Claw dies when his HookHand snags on some high voltage wires when he is hiding in an electrical substation waiting to kill Tracy.
* InsideJob: Tracy realizes that the fur robbery was an inside job when he learns the thieves had the combination to the vault.
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* SoMuchForStealth: Sightless is spying on the Claw, Ryan and Taylor through the window of the Blinking Skull when his sleeve snags on the the spike fence. As he tries to free it, he drops his peddler's trays and all of the wares spill out with a loud clatter, alerting the crooks inside to his presence.
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* SoMuchForStealth: SoMuchForStealth:
** Sightless is spying on the Claw, Ryan and Taylor through the window of the Blinking Skull when his sleeve snags on the the spike fence. As he tries to free it, he drops his peddler's trays and all of the wares spill out with a loud clatter, alerting the crooks inside to his presence.
** Later Vitamin is hiding from the Claw in a broom closet, but accidentally kicks over a mop bucket.
** When the Claw is attempting to sneak away from Tracy in the junkyard, he climbs into a derelict railway car, but the step gives way under his foot, revealing his location to Tracy.
** Sightless is spying on the Claw, Ryan and Taylor through the window of the Blinking Skull when his sleeve snags on the the spike fence. As he tries to free it, he drops his peddler's trays and all of the wares spill out with a loud clatter, alerting the crooks inside to his presence.
** Later Vitamin is hiding from the Claw in a broom closet, but accidentally kicks over a mop bucket.
** When the Claw is attempting to sneak away from Tracy in the junkyard, he climbs into a derelict railway car, but the step gives way under his foot, revealing his location to Tracy.
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* DyingClue: The watchman killed at the fur warehouse manages to scrawl and conceal a note stating that three perpetrators performed the hit against the warehouse. It also mentions that they used a truck with the name "Daisy" on it and part of a license plate. The note has the legitimately awful writing of dying man, and Tracy and Patton have to subject the note to forensic analysis to decipher the scrawl.
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* DyingClue: The watchman killed at the fur warehouse manages to scrawl and conceal a note stating that three perpetrators performed the hit against the warehouse. It also mentions that they used a truck with the name "Daisy" on it and part of a license plate. The note has the legitimately awful writing handwriting of dying man, and Tracy and Patton have to subject the note to forensic analysis to decipher the scrawl.
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* SoMuchForStealth: Sightless is spying on the Claw, Ryan and Taylor through the window of the Blinking Skull when his sleeve snags on the the spike fence. As he tries to free it, he drops his peddler's trays and all of the wares spill out with a loud clatter, alerting the crooks inside to his presence.
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* HookHand: Steve Miller gets his nickname "the Claw" from the steel prosthetic hook.
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* DyingClue: The watchman killed at the fur warehouse manages to scrawl and conceal a note stating that three perpetrators performed the hit against the warehouse. It also mentions that they used a truck with the name "Daisy" on it and part of a license plate. The note has the legitimately awful writing of dying man, and Tracy and Patton have to subject the note to forensic analysis to decipher the scrawl.
* HookHand: Steve Miller gets his nickname "the Claw" from the steel prosthetichook.hook that replaces his right hand.
* TheInformant: [[ObfuscatingDisability Fake blind man]] Sightless sells information to Dick Tracy.
* ObfuscatingDisability: Sightless is a street peddler who pretends to be blind to generate sympathy and make more sales. He uses his fake blindness to spy on local criminals and [[TheInformant inform to Tracy]].
* HookHand: Steve Miller gets his nickname "the Claw" from the steel prosthetic
* TheInformant: [[ObfuscatingDisability Fake blind man]] Sightless sells information to Dick Tracy.
* ObfuscatingDisability: Sightless is a street peddler who pretends to be blind to generate sympathy and make more sales. He uses his fake blindness to spy on local criminals and [[TheInformant inform to Tracy]].
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''Dick Tracy's Dilemma'' (1947) is the third entry in Creator/RKOPictures' ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' film series. It was directed by John Rawlins, with Ralph Byrd starring as Dick Tracy, reprising the role after Republic Pictures's 1937 ''Dick Tracy'' FilmSerial and its three sequels.
Dick Tracy is called in to handle a fur theft. The owner of Flawless Furs, Humphreys, has just signed on with the Honesty Insurance Company whose investigator, Cudd, made him change the combination to the vault. The insurance policy --as the head of Honesty, Peter Premium, explains -- holds the company liable if the stolen furs haven't been recovered within 24 hours of the theft. The trail leads to Longshot Lily, a would-be fence who is promptly arrested. But when Tracy's snitch, Sightless, is found brutally murdered, the detective realizes that he has more than a simple fur theft on his hands. With the help of master thespian Vitamin Flintheart and ever-present sidekick Pat Patton, Tracy follows a series of clues that leads him to a deserted junkyard and a fateful confrontation with fiendish killer "the Claw".
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* HookHand: Steve Miller gets his nickname "the Claw" from the steel prosthetic hook.
* RedRightHand: The Claw has a HookHand and a gimpy leg.
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Dick Tracy is called in to handle a fur theft. The owner of Flawless Furs, Humphreys, has just signed on with the Honesty Insurance Company whose investigator, Cudd, made him change the combination to the vault. The insurance policy --as the head of Honesty, Peter Premium, explains -- holds the company liable if the stolen furs haven't been recovered within 24 hours of the theft. The trail leads to Longshot Lily, a would-be fence who is promptly arrested. But when Tracy's snitch, Sightless, is found brutally murdered, the detective realizes that he has more than a simple fur theft on his hands. With the help of master thespian Vitamin Flintheart and ever-present sidekick Pat Patton, Tracy follows a series of clues that leads him to a deserted junkyard and a fateful confrontation with fiendish killer "the Claw".
!!Tropes:
* HookHand: Steve Miller gets his nickname "the Claw" from the steel prosthetic hook.
* RedRightHand: The Claw has a HookHand and a gimpy leg.
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