Cast
- Ralph Byrd as Dick Tracy - The tough, square-jawed detective
- Anne Gwynne as Tess Truehart - Tracy's girlfriend, who witnesses the bank robbery
- Boris Karloff as Gruesome - A corpse-like gangster.
- Skelton Knaggs as Rudolph X-Ray - Gruesome's spectacled henchman
- Edward Ashley as Dr. Lee Thal - an interested party.
- June Clayworth as Dr. I.M. Learned - Prof. Tomic's assistant
- Lyle Latell as Pat Patton - Tracy's bumbling sidekick
- Tony Barrett as 'Melody' Fiske - A greedy, piano-playing thug
- Jim Nolan as Dan Sterne - A nosy newspaper reporter
- Joseph Crehan as Chief Brandon - Tracy's reliable boss
- Milton Parsons as Dr. A. Tomic - a State U. physicist
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