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* MeaningfulName: The movie features a jeweler named "Jules Sparkle".
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* PrettyInMink: Tess wears a white mink coat when she is posing as a wealthy socialite.
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* SoMuchForStealth: While keeping The Dripping Dagger under surveillance, Pat knocks over some garbage cans; making a loud clatter and alerting Cueball to the police presence.
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* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: Cueball gets on board the ship by slipping into the middle of the gang of stevedores coming aboard to unload her.

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* HereWeGoAgain: The movie starts with Dick and Pat leaving Dick's birthday after getting a phone call about a murder. At the end of the movie, Tess throws a second belated birthday party for Dick, and says this time the phone is staying off the hook. Then a shooting occurs outside the window, and Dick and Pat leave to investigate; much to Tess's frustration.

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* HereWeGoAgain: The movie starts with Dick and Pat leaving Dick's birthday party after getting a phone call about a murder. At the end of the movie, Tess throws a second belated birthday party for Dick, and says this time the phone is staying off the hook. Then a shooting occurs outside the window, and Dick and Pat leave to investigate; much to Tess's frustration.


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* OffBridgeOntoVehicle: Cueball jumps from a footbridge on to the top of an (unmoving) freight train, and then to the ground to escape into the rail yards. Dick follows him.
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* HereWeGoAgain: The movie starts with Dick and Pat leaving Dick's birthday after getting a phone call about a murder. At the end of the movie, Tess throws a second belated birthday party for Dick, and says this time the phone is staying off the hook. Then a shooting occurs outside the window, and Dick and Pat leave to investigate; much to Tess's frustration.
* [[MistakenForJunkie Mistaken for Drunk]]: A possibly concussed Pat Patton crashes his police car. The first cop on the scene starts questioning him, and Pat's confused and unhelpful answers lead to assume Pat is drunk and arrest him.
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* NotMyDriver: Cueball poses as taxi driver to abduct Tess when she posing as socialite Diane Belmont.

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* NotMyDriver: Cueball poses as a taxi driver to abduct Tess when she is posing as socialite Diane Belmont.

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* BadGuyBar: The Dripping Dagger, owned by Filthy Flora, is a gathering place for the criminal element of the city. It includes hidden rooms for criminals on the run that Flora rents out at an exorbitant rate.



* CannonImmigrant: Decades after this film--in 2011--Cueball would appear in two storylines in the ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' comic strip.

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* CannonImmigrant: CanonImmigrant: Decades after this film--in 2011--Cueball would appear in two storylines in the ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' comic strip.
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* CannonImmigrant: Decades after this film--in 2011--Cueball would appear in two storylines in the ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' comic strip.
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* PsychoForHire: Percival Priceless, Simon Little and Mona Clyde hire Cueball to do their dirty work and steal the diamonds coming in the ship. Cueball proves to be a loose cannon and kills the courier.
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* RailroadTracksOfDoom: The climax is a running shootout between Tracy and Cueball in the rail yard. While attempting to escape, Cueball gets his foot wedged in the railroad tracks and is run down by a train as tries desperately to free it.


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* ThrowawayGuns: During the shootout in the rail yard, Cueball throws his gun away when it runs out of bullets.
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* BookcasePassage: Simon Little has a secret passage concealed behind a bookcase in his basement. Cueball uses it on multiple occasions to slip out when the building is under police surveillance.
* CarMeetsHouse: While chasing Cueball from The Dripping Dagger, Pat--who is recovering from yet another TapOnTheHead--drives his police car into a shopfront.
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* BaldOfEvil: PsychoForHire Cueball gets his nickname beacuse he is completely bald.

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* BaldOfEvil: PsychoForHire Cueball gets his nickname beacuse because he is completely bald.



* NotMyDriver: Cueball poses as taxi driver to abduct when she posing as socialite Diane Belmont.
* TapOnTheHead: Cueball knocks out Pat Patton with one quicj blow on the back of the neck with a sap.

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* NotMyDriver: Cueball poses as taxi driver to abduct Tess when she posing as socialite Diane Belmont.
* TapOnTheHead: Cueball knocks out Pat Patton with one quicj quick blow on the back of the neck with a sap.sap. However, Pat having a hard head and being unaffected by repeated blows is a RunningGag in the film.
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* WouldHitAWoman:Cueball slaps Filthy Flora around and then strangles her with his hatband when he learns she has taken his diamonds.

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* WouldHitAWoman:Cueball WouldHitAGirl:Cueball slaps Filthy Flora around and then strangles her with his hatband when he learns she has taken his diamonds.
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''Dick Tracy vs. Cueball'' is a 1946 American 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 ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' film series released by Creator/RKORadioPictures.

Diamonds are stolen but before the thief can safely hide them aboard an ocean liner he is strangled by ex-conman Cueball. Cueball takes the diamonds and is given refuge by Filthy Flora, madam of the Dripping Dagger Bar, and then continues on murdering people that he believes are trying to double-cross him. Dick Tracy allows his girlfriend Tess to act as a buyer for the diamonds but is put in grave danger when Cueball vows to eliminate her.

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* BaldOfEvil: PsychoForHire Cueball gets his nickname beacuse he is completely bald.
* ClothingCombat: Cueball strangles his victims to death with his braided leather hatband.
* NotMyDriver: Cueball poses as taxi driver to abduct when she posing as socialite Diane Belmont.
* TapOnTheHead: Cueball knocks out Pat Patton with one quicj blow on the back of the neck with a sap.
* WouldHitAWoman:Cueball slaps Filthy Flora around and then strangles her with his hatband when he learns she has taken his diamonds.

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