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Dick Tracy
Their turf. Their game. Their rules. They didn't count on HIS law...
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
- Original title
- Dick Tracy
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $47,000,000
- Revenue
- $103,738,726
AlfaVitaY2K
Jun 1, 2026 · via TMDB
Dick Tracy is rooted in real (old-school) criminology: Psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso's theory based on ancient Rome and Greece fear of degenerates that serious criminals are often born degenerates succinctly put in a quote "Sane mind in sane body" and "All degnerates are born criminals, but not all criminals are born degenerates". Physical and mental throwbacks wired for evil. Chester Gould drew those villains accordingly: grotesque, deformed freaks who look like crime personified. No sob stories of psychologoical trauma cuses of evil, just natural born monsters that need stopping. Hard justice, science, and police work by Alpha male hero Dick Tracy perfectly cast as Warren Beatty. Recommended for 100%. I have no idea why this excellent movie is not popular.
kevin2019
Aug 15, 2025 · via TMDB
"Dick Tracy" is an incredibly well paced film and Warren Beatty has done a terrific job in the difficult task of taking an extraordinarily popular comic strip and endeavouring to bring it to life on the screen. He achieves this by having some of the backgrounds (and indeed the city skyline itself) drawn in the comic book style and he also makes the task aesthetically pleasing by using a wonderfully striking and beautifully vivid colour scheme. The film is considerably helped by the splendid make-up effects - they are of an impeccable calibre which really brings the gallery of eccentric comic book characters to life in a sometimes amusing way - and by the superb musical score with Madonna singing a selection of engaging songs and composer Danny Elfman providing appropriately atmospheric music throughout.
CinemaSerf
Feb 9, 2025 · via TMDB
Debonair and brightly clad detective “Dick Tracy” (Warren Beatty) is out to stop an all out war breaking out in the city after mobster “Big Boy” (Al Pacino) slays “Lips” (Paul Sorvino) with a view to running the whole show. Part of that cunning plan is to unite all the criminal fraternities and get rid of this pesky cop. Meantime, “Tracy” alights on the permanently hungry “Kid” (Charlie Korsmo) whom he has to look after as well as his girlfriend “Tess” (Glenne Headly) as the bullets fly and things become seriously perilous for all three of them. He’s also got to figure out just what angle nightclub chanteuse “Breathless Mahoney” (Madonna) has in all of this - and is she at all to be trusted? Oh, and there’s also the malevolent “Blank” to deal with too. In many ways this brightly coloured series of escapades reminded me of “Bugsy Malone” (1976) only without the custard pies. It’s decently enough paced and there is the odd action sequence, for I found it to be just a bit too stylistic with not enough emphasis on the characters or on the story. Indeed, that last element is really pretty weak as none of the acting talent seem to quite know whether to play the menacing or the pantomime. There are a few moments from Pacino that raise it’s game now and again, but for the most part this is all a pale imitation of Edward G. Robinson or Robert Mitchum on a bad day. It’s all disappointingly tame and Madonna’s contributions - musically or otherwise, show her limitations as an actor all too clearly, too.
talisencrw
Aug 12, 2016 · via TMDB
I'm heartily disappointed that this didn't produce sequels. If any fine actor/director of the period was perfect for the role of Dick Tracy, it was Beatty. He does very good work here. It's as if he took Tim Burton's template for 'Batman' and simply adjusted it for his comic-book picture. Madonna isn't bad here either, simply because she's pretending to be Marilyn Monroe, something she'd been wanting to do all of her career to that point. And the rogues gallery here is perhaps second in quality only to the aforementioned DC Caped Crusader. In retrospect, that perhaps was the picture's weakest link--no true criminal really dominated proceedings and stuck in one's mind. Had they tried the time-tested hookup of two baddies to get in Dick's hair just enough to rile him, it may have worked better. Still one of the most enjoyable, and underrated, comic-book pictures of the past three decades.
John Chard
Mar 12, 2014 · via TMDB
A bit too mellow yellow. Dick Tracy is directed by Warren Beatty and written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. Based on Chester Gould’s comic strip creation of the same name, it stars Beatty, Al Pacino, Madonna, Glenne Headly, Dustin Hoffman, Charlie Korsmo, Charles Durning and William Forsythe. Music is by Danny Elfman, with songs by Stephen Sondheim, and cinematography is by Vittorio Storaro. Punk Rock band X-Ray Spex once sang about The Day The World Turned Day-Glo, Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy was exactly that. The live action cartoon is a feast for the eyes, as the city backdrop for this cops and gangsters tale is a fountain of bright, lurid primary colours. The characters are drawn brilliantly, where the good guys are very much human, but the bad guys are a bunch of grotesques, like a mutant gathering under one coalition banner. All star casting, striking costuming, amazing effects work, quality songs and a brisk musical score (Elfman reworks his score for Batman from the previous year), Dick Tracy as a production is grade “A” stuff. It also did very well at the box office, where although it didn’t reach Disney’s expectation levels financially, it coined to the tune of over $100 million in profit Worldwide. Not bad for a film some still think was a flop! It’s a film that feels a lot better watching it now than it did back on release, to be able to view it as a smart technical accomplishment for the time it was made. The cast factor also makes it something of a fascinating experience, watching legends like Pacino and Hoffman absolutely buy into the cartoon excess on show. However, the old problem with it just will never go away. Yes the plot is very simple, but that’s easy to accept these days, it was after all a gangster movie made for all the family, it’s that Beatty’s portrayal of Tracy is too under played. He’s a good guy, we know that, we are on his side, but it’s a flat characterisation, he’s never pushed to be anything other than a cool dude. This of course lets the monstrous villains take the film by the scruff of the neck, as most villains tend to anyway, but for a film carrying his name, you expect a bit more from Dick Tracy the man. Still, Dick Tracy is a fun movie experience, not all it can be, but enjoyable regardless. 7/10
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Big Boy Caprice
Madonna
Breathless Mahoney
Dustin Hoffman
Mumbles
James Caan
Spaldoni
Charlie Korsmo
Kid
Glenne Headly
Tess Trueheart
Mandy Patinkin
88 Keys
Seymour Cassel
Sam Catchem
James Keane
Pat Patton
Charles Durning
Chief Brandon
William Forsythe
Flattop
James Tolkan
Numbers
Ed O'Ross
Itchy
Dick Van Dyke
D.A. Fletcher
R.G. Armstrong
Pruneface
Michael J. Pollard
Bug Bailey
Paul Sorvino
Lips Manlis
Henry Silva
Influence
Tom Signorelli
Mike
Stig Eldred
Shoulders
Jim Wilkey
Stooge
Neil Summers
The Rodent
Chuck Hicks
The Brow
Lawrence Steven Meyers
Little Face
Tony Epper
Steve the Tramp
Estelle Parsons
Mrs. Trueheart
Allen Garfield
Reporter
John Schuck
Reporter
Charles Fleischer
Reporter
Mary Woronov
Welfare Person
Kathy Bates
Mrs. Green
Ian Wolfe
Forger
Henry Jones
Night Clerk
Catherine O'Hara
Texie Garcia
Robert Beecher
Ribs Mocca
Lew Horn
Lefty Moriarty
Michael Donovan O'Donnell
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Robert Costanzo
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Jack Kehoe
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Lips' Cop
Mike Hagerty
Doorman
Arthur Malet
Diner Patron
Hamilton Camp
Store Clerk
Ed McCready
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Colm Meaney
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Frank Campanella
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John Moschitta Jr.
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Radio Announcer (voice)
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Mike Mazurki
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Rita Maye Bland
Dancer
Karen Russell
Dancer
Michelle Johnston
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Tamara Carrera
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Sheila Lussier
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Bruce Mahler
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Jamie Anderson
Camera Operator
Vittorio Storaro
Director of Photography
Judianna Makovsky
Assistant Costume Designer
Milena Canonero
Costume Design
Ve Neill
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Jeffrey Hornaday
Choreographer
Doug Drexler
Makeup Effects
Bob Herron
Stunt Double
Gene LeBell
Stunts
Gilbert B. Combs
Stunts
Warren Beatty
Director
Ana Maria Quintana
Script Supervisor
Richard Marks
Editor
Barbara Harris
ADR Voice Casting
Jon Landau
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Art Linson
Executive Producer
Barrie M. Osborne
Executive Producer
Warren Beatty
Producer
Jon Landau
Unit Production Manager
John Roesch
Foley Artist
Steve Bartek
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Danny Elfman
Original Music Composer
Stephen Sondheim
Original Music Composer
Stephen Sondheim
Songs
Doug Hemphill
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Richard Williams
Animation Director
Jack Epps Jr.
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Jun 13, 1990
Woodstock, Illinois
Jun 14, 1990
Los Angeles, California / Orlando, Florida
Jun 15, 1990
