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Gruesome leaves jail and looks up Melody, the piano player at the Hangman's Knot saloon and his old partner in crime. Melody takes him to a plastics manufacturer, where X-Ray and a hidden mastermind hold a secret formula. Gruesome ignores a warning and sniffs gas from a test tube, then collapses. Dick Tracy is at headquarters with Dr. A. Tomic. Gruesome and Melody use the gas in a bank robbery, and Tracy gives the case his full attention.
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- Walter Baconas Bar Patron (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In 2014, writer Mike Curtis and artist Joe Staton brought Gruesome into the Dick Tracy comic strip and later that month added a character inspired by Melody (Mel O. Dee); their Gruesome gets plastic surgery from a "Dr. Einstein" and is drafted to play Jonathon Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace.
- The Nashville band Poet Named Revolver named an album Meets Gruesome after the film, with visual references to it; it was recorded in 2007, first released in 2008 and reissued in 2014 by No Kings Record Cadre.
