Dick Turpin as Turpin in the 1974 Carry On film "Carry On Dick" and LWT cast Richard O'Sullivan as Turpin in their eponymous series "Dick Turpin". Footnotes Notes Bibliography Dick Turpin Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, later, became a poacher, burglar, horse thief and killer. He is also known for a fictional overnight
Dick Tracy Returns that "in any listing of serials released after 1930, the four "Dick Tracy" adventures from Republic must stand out as classics of the suspense detective thrillers, and the models for many others to follow." "Note: This was one of two 15-chapter Republic serials of 1938 (with "The Lone Ranger"). The other two were only 12 chapters long." Dick Tracy Returns Dick Tracy Returns (1938) is a Republic Movie serial based on the Dick Tracy comic strip. It was the eleventh of the sixty-six serials Republic produced and a sequel to the 1937 serial "Dick Tracy", with Ralph Byrd reprising his