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19-589: The Claw may refer to: Characters [ edit ] The Claw (Dick Tracy) , a fictional character in the Dick Tracy film serial Dick Tracy's Dilemma The Claw (Lev Gleason Publications) , a fictional golden-age comic book villain Film [ edit ] The Claw (1918 film) , an American silent film The Claw (1927 film) , an American silent film Literature [ edit ] The Claw (novel) ,

38-630: A 1911 novel by Cynthia Stockley The Claw , a 1981 novel by Norah Lofts The Claw , a 1983 novel by Ramsey Campbell The Claw , a 1995 novel in the Point Horror series by Carmen Adams Television [ edit ] "The Claw", Bluey series 1, episode 19 (2018) "The Claw", Dark Knight season 2, episode 4 (2001) "The Claw", Hong Kong Phooey episode 9a (1974) Other uses [ edit ] The Claw (Dreamworld) , an Intamin Gyro Swing located at Dreamworld on

57-572: A blind beggar called Sightless, who goes to pass the information on. Sightless is sloppy and noisy when eavesdropping, and is nearly caught by the Claw. Still, he manages to escape the bar. Sightless goes directly to Dick Tracy, but is stopped at the door by Tracy's friend, Vitamin Flintheart. Vitamin believes the beggar is up to no good, and denies him entrance to the house. After listening to Sightless' message, Vitamin gets rid of him. Still, he passes

76-427: A grenade with the gas into a wastebasket; when it goes off, everyone but Tess freezes in place. They rob the place of more than $ 100,000 and shoot a cop on the sidewalk before Tracy and his men arrive. Gruesome demands half of the loot from X-Ray .... or else. Tracy tries to learn the secret of the formula from Dr. Tomic's top assistant, Professor Learned ( June Clayworth ), before going after Gruesome and his gang. Over

95-486: A heart attack, on August 18, 1952, at age 43. Ruthless killer Steve Michel is known to the public as "the Claw" for his way of killing his victims with his prosthetic hook. After his accomplices Ryan and Taylor have broken in and stolen furs from the Flawless Furs warehouse, Steve kills the guard with his hook. When the police arrive at the crime scene in the shape of Detective Dick Tracy, he talks to Humphries, who

114-486: A plastics manufacturer, where X-Ray ( Skelton Knaggs ) and a mysterious mastermind are in possession of a secret formula and hatching a sinister plot. Ignoring a warning not to touch anything, Gruesome sniffs the gas from a mysterious test tube ; he escapes the toxic fumes but collapses upon returning to the Hangman's Knot and is taken to the city morgue , where his body stiffens dramatically . Dick Tracy ( Ralph Byrd )

133-447: A shot and wounds him, but still, the Claw manages to escape. Tracy notices that the Claw had tried to make a phone call from Sightless' phone, and can identify the first digits from hook scratches on the phone dial. He sends Patton to find the rest of the phone number. Tracy himself goes to the insurance company and accuses them of stealing the furs from the warehouse. They protest against the charges when Patton arrives and tells them that

152-497: A type of mechanical arcade game Claw (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Claw . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Claw&oldid=1238467309 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

171-472: Is a 1947 American thriller film directed by John Rawlins and starring Boris Karloff , Ralph Byrd and Anne Gwynne . The film is the fourth and final installment of the Dick Tracy film series released by RKO Radio Pictures . Just out of jail, Gruesome (Boris Karloff) goes to the Hangman's Knot saloon , where his old crime crony, Melody ( Tony Barrett ), is now playing piano. Gruesome takes him to

190-464: Is at headquarters speaking with college professor Dr. A. Tomic ( Milton Parsons ), a scientist who suspects someone has been following him. At the morgue, Tracy's sidekick Pat ( Lyle Latell ) has his back turned when Gruesome wakes up and knocks him out. Pat describes him to Tracy as looking a lot like the actor Boris Karloff (a gag cribbed from Arsenic and Old Lace ). At a bank where Tess Trueheart (Anne Gwynne) happens to be, Gruesome and Melody drop

209-523: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Claw (Dick Tracy) The follow-up to Dick Tracy's Dilemma was Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947), the fourth and last entry in the RKO series. Dick Tracy, the character next made the move to television. The program ran for 39 episodes in the 1950–1951 season. Ralph Byrd may well have played Dick Tracy in further adventures had he not died unexpectedly, of

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228-404: Is the owner of the store; Peter Premium, who is a representative for the insurance company; and a man named Cudd, who is the insurance investigator. The insurance company only has 24 hours to find the stolen goods, or they have to reimburse the fur company. Tracy and his semicompetent assistant Patton examine the dead body at the morgue and find a note on it stating that three perpetrators performed

247-567: The Claw. Humphries tells the Claw over the phone about his predicament, and the Claw becomes suspicious towards Vitamin and his blind-beggar performance. Tracy arrives to the bar just in time to save his friend from the Claw, and a chase back down to the junkyard happens. Tracy chases the Claw to a high-voltage generator, and the killer is killed by an electric shock when he touches a wire with his hook. Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (also known as Dick Tracy Meets Karloff and Dick Tracy's Amazing Adventure (UK) )

266-742: The Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia "The Claw", a guitar instrumental composition by Jerry Reed The Claw (University of South Florida) , a golf and cross country course White Memorial Fountain , nicknamed The Claw, a fountain at Stanford University that resembles a claw People [ edit ] Jorge Luis Mendoza Cárdenas , Mexican suspected drug lord nicknamed "la Garra" ("the Claw") Peter Clohessy (born 1966), Irish former rugby union footballer nicknamed "the Claw" See also [ edit ] Kawhi Leonard (born 1991), American basketball player nicknamed "the Klaw" Claw crane ,

285-430: The bar to find the killer, pretending to be a blind beggar himself. Sam and Fred make an attempt to steal the money for themselves, but the Claw, wounded but still capable of fighting, manages to kill them both. The killings are witnessed by Vitamin, who also hears the Claw talk on the phone to Humphries, telling him the furs' whereabouts. Meanwhile, Patton and Cudd have gone to Humphries and are watching him as he talks to

304-483: The course of the film, Learned is shot dead, and Melody dies in a car accident. As an offhand comment, Tess quips "dead men tell no tales", which gives Tracy an idea: since Gruesome will resort even to murder to keep his secret weapon a secret, if he thinks Melody is alive, he will hunt Melody down to prevent any leaks. Tracy decides to run a false flag operation: put out word that Melody has been captured alive, and pose as Melody hoping Gruesome will show up. Gruesome takes

323-427: The hit against the warehouse. It also mentions that they used a truck with the name "Daisy" on it. Unfortunately, the three perpetrators disguise the truck before Tracy can find it, and the lead is a dead end. The robbers soon leave their hideout in a local junkyard and go to a nearby bar to phone their boss and get new instructions. As they speak with the boss on the phone, their conversation is overheard by an informant,

342-406: The message on to Tracy later, and Tracy and Patton manage to find the fence who the three robbers were meeting, Longshot Lillie. Lillie is taken into custody and questioned, but is unable to identify the robbers. At the same time, the Claw finds Sightless' apartment and kills the blind man with his hook. Soon after, Tracy and Patton arrive, and the Claw flees the scene. Patton pursues the killer, fires

361-416: The number leads to the storeowner Humphries. Humphries' plan was all along to sell back the furs to the insurance company after the 24 hours had passed and collect the penalty fee stated in the policy. He calls the robbers at the same bar as before, instructing them to tell the insurance company to come to the bar with $ 50,000. Feeling guilty about sending Sightless off to a certain death before, Vitamin goes to

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