Dick Tracy (film)

Dick Tracy

The story centers around detective Dick Tracy's battle with mobster Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice (Pacino) and with Tracy's tangled love life with Breathless Mahoney (Madonna) and Tess Trueheart (Headly).Dick Tracy is a 1990 action-adventure film based upon the Dick Tracy comic strip created by Chester Gould in 1931. Warren Beatty directed, produced and starred in the leading role.

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Dick Tracy was released on June 15, 1990, which mean it had follow the previous summer's success on Batman. Disney spent a total of $9,000,000 on the film's marketing strategy alone, dealing with its $45,000,000 production budget, coming at a total cost of $54,000,000. In addition it was the first film released using digital sound. Dick Tracy went on to gross $22,543,911 on its opening weekend, garnering 20% of its total box office run. In the final results for its North American run, the film made $103,738,726. Overseas it grossed $59,000,000. The end result came to a total gross of $162,738,726, equivalent to over $261 million in 2007, declaring itself to be a box office success. Disney, however, was disappointed hoping the film would have the same commercial success as Batman. Dick Tracy was the number nine grossing film of 1990.

Directed by Warren Beatty
Produced by Warren Beatty
Written by Jim Cash
Jack Epps Jr.
Bo Goldman
Chester Gould (comic strip)

Cast

Warren Beatty - Dick Tracy

Charlie Korsmo - Kid
Michael Donovan O'Donnell - McGillicuddy
Jim Wilkey - Stooge
Stig Eldred - Shoulders
Neil Summers - The Rodent

Chuck Hicks - The Brow
Lawrence Steven Meyers - Little Face

William Forsythe - Flattop
Ed O'Ross - Itchy

Glenne Headly - Tess Trueheart
Marvelee Cariaga - Soprano
Michael Gallup - Baritone

Seymour Cassel - Sam Catchem

James Keane - Pat Patton
Charles Durning - Chief Brandon
Allen Garfield - Reporter
John Schuck - Reporter

Charles Fleischer - Reporter

Madonna - Breathless Mahoney

Mandy Patinkin - 88 Keys

Paul Sorvino - Lips Manlis
Robert Costanzo - Lips' Bodyguard
Jack Kehoe - Customer at Raid
Marshall Bell - Lips' Cop

Mike Hagerty - Doorman (as Michael G. Hagerty)
Lew Horn - Lefty Moriarty
Arthur Malet - Diner Patron
Tom Signorelli - Mike
Tony Epper - Steve 'the Tramp' Brogan

Al Pacino - Big Boy Caprice
James Tolkan - Numbers
R.G. Armstrong - Pruneface

Dustin Hoffman - Mumbles

Kathy Bates - Mrs. Green
Jack Goode Jr-. Lab Technician
Ray Stoddard - Lab Technician

Dick Van Dyke - D.A. Fletcher
Hamilton Camp - Store Clerk
Ed McCready - Cop at Tess'

Colm Meaney - Cop at Tess'

Catherine O'Hara - Texie Garcia
Henry Silva - Influence
Robert Beecher - Ribs Mocca

James Caan - Spaldoni
Bert Remsen - Bartender
Frank Campanella - Judge Harper
Sharmagne Leland-St. John - Club Ritz Patron
Bing Russell - Club Ritz Patron

Michael J. Pollard - Bug Bailey

Tom Finnegan - Uniform Cop at Ritz
Billy Clevenger - Newspaper Vendor
Ned Claflin - Radio Announcer
John Moschitta Jr-. Radio Announcer (voice)
Neil Ross - Radio Announcer (voice)
Walker Edmiston - Radio Announcer (voice)
Estelle Parsons - Mrs. Trueheart
Ian Wolfe - Forger
Mary Woronov - Welfare Person
Henry Jones - Night Clerk
Mike Mazurki - Old Man at Hotel
Rita Bland - Dancer
Lada Boder - Dancer
Dee Hengstler - Dancer
Liz Imperio - Dancer
Michelle Johnston - Dancer
Karyne Ortega - Dancer
Karen Russell - Dancer
Tamara Carrera - Cigarette Girl
Bernie Jones - Night Club Musician
Bruce Mahler - Reporter
Jerry St. John - Driver

Plot

While an illegal card game is taking place, a young street urchin witnesses the massacre of a group of mobsters by Flattop, one of the hoods on the pay roll of Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice, whose crime syndicate is aggressively taking over small businesses in the city. Detective Dick Tracy later catches the urchin (who calls himself "Kid") in an act of petty theft and, after rescuing him from his ruthless guardian, he temporarily adopts him with the help of girlfriend Tess Trueheart.

Meanwhile, Caprice coerces club owner Lips Manlis into signing over the deed to Club Ritz. Caprice then has Manlis killed and steals his girlfriend, the seductive and sultry singer, Breathless Mahoney. After the police find the body, Tracy goes to the club and arrests Caprice for Manlis' murder. Tracy asks Mahoney for her testimony, as she is the only witness. Instead of providing testimony she unsuccessfully attempts to seduce Tracy. Caprice cannot be convicted as there is no evidence, and he is released from jail.

Caprice's next move is to try to bring the local criminals, including Pruneface, Ribs Mocca, Mumbles, Itchy and Numbers, together under his leadership. When one of them refuses, he meets an untimely demise. Tracy gets on the case, but without Mahoney's testimony, he cannot prove that Caprice was behind the crimes. He therefore tries one last time to get the testimony from her.

She arrives at Tracy's office wearing a sexy outfit and tells him she will testify if, and only if, he agrees to give in to her sexual advances. He resists, despite his growing attraction to her. Rescued by the Kid, Tracy leads a seemingly unsuccessful raid on Club Ritz, which is only a cover for access to the club. Tracy has one of his men plant a hearing detector in a back room, so the police can listen in on Caprice's criminal activities.

The resultant raids on illegal enterprises all but wipe out Caprice's criminal empire, but when Caprice discovers the listening device, he uses it to lure Tracy to him. A faceless figure (The "Blank"), however, steps out of the shadows and saves Tracy. Meanwhile, Mahoney shows up at Tracy's apartment, once again in an attempt to seduce him. Tracy shows that he can't resist after all when he allows her to kiss him. Truehart witnesses them kissing and subsequently leaves town. She subsequently has a change of heart, but before she can tell Tracy, she is kidnapped by the Blank. Tracy receives a message to come to the greenhouse where Truehart works, but it is another trap. Tracy is drugged by the Blank and framed for the murder of corrupt District Attorney Fletcher.

Caprice is back in business, but he too has been framed, for Truehart's kidnapping, a federal offense. Sprung from jail by his colleagues, Tracy sets out to rescue his girlfriend. He arrives at a shootout outside Caprice's club, where all of Caprice's men are gunned down by the police and Tracy himself. Abandoning his crew, Caprice ties Truehart to the mechanism of a drawbridge, but he is confronted by both the Blank and Tracy. Desperate to escape, he shoots the Blank. Beneath the faceless figure's mask, Tracy is shocked to find Breathless Mahoney, who kisses him and breathes her last breath. Enraged, Tracey punches Caprice and sends him falling to his death in the bridge gears. He then frees his girlfriend, and his name is cleared from the murder of Fletcher. Later, in the middle of a marriage proposal to Truehart, Tracy is interrupted by a robbery in progress, and takes off with the kid, who now calls himself Dick Tracy Jr.

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