Parkland Picks with Popcorn #10

POP Goes: Dick Tracy Detects, Hombre Means Man, Tides are Passionate, and Groucho Goes MotoringDICK TRACY (1945) --- Called in some quarters Dick Tracy, Detective, as if we’d need telling what Dick did for a living, or maybe it was necessary since Dick derived from a comic strip called kid stuff by most (even though grown-ups liked him too), the character better put to serials. Three of those stuff had come from Republic with Ralph Byrd starring, but RKO was for launching Tracy in features, and using their own Morgan Conway, at least for initial two of four, Tracy rights reverting back to strip publisher and quartet of RKO features suffering quality-wise as result. VCI is happily aboard with a Blu-Ray set, Tracy in toto, plus one of the serial chapters for sampling of what went before. As expected, the lot never looked better. To adapt Dick Tracy faithful was to invite more comedy than police action, Gould gallery of villains outlandish enough on pages, more so as fodder for films,…