Released by his colleagues on New Year's Eve, Tracy interrogates Mumbles, and arrives at a gun battle outside the Club Ritz where Big Boy's men are killed or captured by Tracy and the police. The Kid, meanwhile, adopts the name "Dick Tracy, Jr."īig Boy's business thrives until The Blank frames him for Tess' kidnapping. Tracy is drugged and rendered unconscious by The Blank, then framed for murdering the corrupt District Attorney John Fletcher, whereupon he is detained by the police. Tess eventually has a change of heart, but before she can tell Tracy, she is kidnapped by The Blank, with the help of Big Boy's club piano player, 88 Keys. She agrees to testify only if Tracy agrees to give in to her advances. Tracy again attempts to extract the testimony from Breathless that he needs to put Big Boy away. Influence escapes as Tracy rescues Bug from the fate that befell Lips Manlis, and Big Boy is enraged to hear that The Blank foiled the hit. In the resulting gun battle, a stranger with no face called "The Blank" steps out of the shadows to save Tracy after he is cornered, and kills Pruneface. However, Big Boy discovers Bug, and captures him for a trap planned by Influence and Pruneface to kill Tracy in the warehouse. The resultant raids all but wipe out Big Boy's criminal empire. Tracy leads a seemingly unsuccessful raid on Club Ritz, but it is actually a diversion so that Officer "Bug" Bailey can enter the building to operate a secretly installed listening device so the police can listen in on Big Boy's criminal activities. Tess witnesses this scene and eventually leaves town. However, Tracy is saved by Kid, who is then bestowed by the police with an honorary detective certificate, which will remain temporary until he decides on a legitimate name for himself.īreathless shows up at Tracy's apartment, once again in an attempt to seduce him. The next day, Big Boy and his henchmen kidnap Tracy and attempt to bribe him Tracy rebuffs them, prompting the criminals to attempt to kill him. Spaldoni refuses and is killed with a carbomb, leaving Dick Tracy, who discovered the meeting and was attempting to spy on it, wondering what is going on. Big Boy's next move is to try to bring other criminals, including Spud Spaldoni, Pruneface, Influence, Texie Garcia, Ribs Mocca, and Numbers, together under his leadership.
Big Boy cannot be indicted, and he is released from jail. Instead of providing testimony, she unsuccessfully attempts to seduce Tracy. After Lips is reported missing, Tracy interrogates his three hired guns Flattop, Itchy, and Mumbles, then goes to the club to arrest Big Boy for Lips' murder. He then kills Lips with a cement overcoat (referred to onscreen as "The Bath") and steals his girlfriend, the seductive and sultry singer Breathless Mahoney. Meanwhile, Big Boy coerces club owner Lips Manlis into signing over the deed to Club Ritz.
After rescuing him from a ruthless host, Tracy temporarily adopts him with the help of his girlfriend, Tess Trueheart. Detective Dick Tracy catches the urchin (who calls himself "Kid") in an act of petty theft. Big Boy's crime syndicate is aggressively taking over small businesses in the city. In 1938, at an illegal card game, a young street urchin witnesses the massacre of a group of mobsters at the hands of Flattop and Itchy, two of the hoods on the payroll of Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice. 7 Possible sequel, legal issues and reboot.
It is remembered today for its visual style. It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, winning in three of the categories: Best Original Song, Best Makeup, and Best Art Direction. It was released nationwide a day later to mixed reviews, but it was a success at the box office and at awards time. Danny Elfman was hired to compose the score, and the film's music was featured on three separate soundtrack albums.ĭick Tracy premiered at the Uptown Theatre in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 1990. It was filmed mainly at Universal Studios. The project also went through directors Steven Spielberg, John Landis, Walter Hill, and Richard Benjamin before the arrival of Beatty. The screenplay was written instead by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr., both of Top Gun fame.
Tracy also begins fostering a young street urchin named Kid.ĭevelopment of the film began in the early 1980s with Tom Mankiewicz assigned to write the script. Dick Tracy depicts the detective's romantic relationships with Breathless Mahoney and Tess Trueheart as well as his conflicts with crime boss Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice and his henchmen. Warren Beatty produced, directed, and starred in the film, whose supporting cast includes Al Pacino, Madonna, Glenne Headly, and Charlie Korsmo. Dick Tracy is a 1990 American action crime comedy film based on the 1930s comic strip character of the same name created by Chester Gould.
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