Dick Tracy (1990 film)
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Buena Vista Pictures Distribution | |
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Running time | 105 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $46 million[2] |
Box office | $162.7 million[3] |
Dick Tracy is a 1990 American
Development of the film began in the early 1980s with
Dick Tracy premiered at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C., June 10, 1990, and was released nationwide a day later. Reviews ranged from favorable to mixed, with positive comments on the performances (particularly Pacino and Madonna), production design, make up effects, music, and Beatty's direction, but negative ones on the screenplay and characterization. The film was a success at the box office and with several award committees. It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, winning in three of the categories: Best Original Song, Best Makeup and Best Art Direction.[4] Dick Tracy is remembered today for its visual style.
Plot
In 1938,[5][6] at an illegal card game, a 10-year-old 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. Big Boy's crime syndicate is aggressively taking over small businesses in the city. Detective Dick Tracy catches the urchin (who calls himself "Kid") in an act of petty theft. After rescuing him from a ruthless host, Tracy temporarily adopts him with the help of his girlfriend, Tess Trueheart.
Meanwhile, Big Boy coerces club owner Lips Manlis into signing the deed over to Club Ritz. He kills Lips with a
Breathless shows up at Tracy's apartment, once again in an attempt to seduce him. Tracy allows her to kiss him. Tess witnesses this scene and eventually leaves town. 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 to listen in on Big Boy's criminal activities. The resultant raids all but wipe out Big Boy's criminal empire. However, Big Boy discovers Bug and captures him for a trap planned by Influence and Pruneface to kill Tracy in the warehouse. 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. 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. Tracy again attempts to extract the testimony from Breathless that he needs to put Big Boy away. She agrees to testify only if Tracy agrees to give in to her advances. 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. 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. The Kid, meanwhile, adopts the name "Dick Tracy, Jr."
Big Boy's business thrives until The Blank frames him for Tess' kidnapping. 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. Abandoning his crew, Big Boy flees to a drawbridge and ties Tess to its gears before he is confronted by Tracy. Their fight is halted when The Blank appears and holds both men at gunpoint, offering to share the city with Tracy after Big Boy is dead. When Junior arrives, Big Boy takes advantage of the distraction and opens fire before Tracy sends him falling to his death in the bridge's gears, while Junior rescues Tess. Mortally wounded, The Blank is unmasked to reveal Breathless Mahoney, who kisses Tracy before dying. All charges against Tracy are dropped.
Later, Tracy proposes to Tess but is interrupted by the report of a robbery in progress. He leaves her with the ring before he and Dick Tracy, Jr., depart to respond to the robbery.
Cast
Main characters
- Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy: a square-jawed, fast-shooting, hard-hitting, and intelligent police detective sporting a yellow overcoat and fedora. He is heavily committed to breaking the hold that organized crime has on the city. In addition, Tracy is in line to become the chief of police, which he scorns as a "desk job".
- Al Pacino as Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice: the leading crime boss of the city. Although he is involved with numerous criminal activities, they remain unproven, as Tracy has never been able to catch him in the act or find a witness to testify.
- Madonna as Breathless "The Blank" Mahoney: an entertainer at Club Ritz who wants to steal Tracy from his girlfriend. She is also the sole witness to several of Caprice's crimes.
- Glenne Headly as Tess Trueheart: Dick Tracy's girlfriend. She feels that Tracy cares more for his job than for her.
- street orphanwho survives by eating out of garbage cans, and is a protege of Steve the Tramp. He falls into the life of both Tracy and Trueheart, and becomes an ally. He becomes Tracy's protege then, adopting the name "Dick Tracy, Jr.".
Law enforcement
- James Keane as Pat Patton: Tracy's closest associate and second-in-command.
- Seymour Cassel as Sam Catchem: Tracy's closest associate and third-in-command.
- Michael J. Pollard as Bug Bailey: a surveillance expert.
- Charles Durning as Chief Brandon: the chief of police who supports Tracy's crusade.
- Dick Van Dyke as District Attorney John Fletcher: a corrupt district attorney who refuses to prosecute Caprice as he is on Caprice's payroll.
- Frank Campanella as Judge Harper.
- Kathy Bates as Mrs. Green: a stenographer.
The mob
- Dustin Hoffman as Mumbles: Caprice's unintelligible henchman.
- hitman. His most distinguishing feature is his square, flat cranium and matching haircut.
- Ed O'Ross as Itchy: Caprice's other hitman. He is usually paired with Flattop.
- James Tolkan as Numbers: Caprice's accountant.
- Mandy Patinkin as 88 Keys: a piano player at Club Ritz who becomes The Blank's minion.
- R. G. Armstrong as Pruneface: a deformed crime boss who becomes one of Caprice's minions.
- Henry Silva as Influence: Pruneface's sinister top gunman.
- Paul Sorvino as Lips Manlis: the original owner of Club Ritz and Caprice's mentor.
- Chuck Hicks as The Brow: a criminal with a large, wrinkled forehead.
- Neil Summers as Rodent: a criminal with a pointed nose, small eyes, and buck teeth.
- Stig Eldred as Shoulders: a criminal with broad shoulders.
- Lawrence Steven Meyers as Little Face: a criminal with a big head and a small face.
- James Caan as Spud Spaldoni: a crime boss who refuses to submit to Caprice.
- Catherine O'Hara as Texie Garcia: a female criminal who submits to Caprice.
- Robert Beecher as Ribs Mocca: a criminal who submits to Caprice.
Others
- Rita Bland, Lada Boder, Dee Hengstler, Liz Imperio, Michelle Johnston, Karyne Ortega and Karen Russell as Breathless Mahoney's dancers at Club Ritz.
- Lew Horn as Lefty Moriarty.
- Mike Hagerty as Doorman.
- Arthur Malet as Diner Patron.
- Bert Remsen as Bartender.
- Jack Kehoe as Customer at Raid.
- Michael Donovan O'Donnell as McGillicuddy.
- Tom Signorelli as Mike: proprietor of the diner Tracy frequents.
- Jim Wilkey as Stooge.
- Mary Woronov as Welfare Person.
Estelle Parsons portrays Tess Trueheart's mother. Tony Epper plays Steve the Tramp. Hamilton Camp appears as a store owner, and Bing Russell plays a Club Ritz patron. Robert Costanzo has a cameo as Lips Manlis's bodyguard, and Marshall Bell briefly appears as a goon of Big Boy Caprice who poses as an arresting officer to ensnare Lips. Allen Garfield, John Schuck and Charles Fleischer make cameos as reporters. Walker Edmiston, John Moschitta Jr. and Neil Ross provide the voices of each radio announcer. Colm Meaney appears as a police officer at Tess Trueheart's home. Mike Mazurki (who played Splitface in the original Dick Tracy film) appears in a small cameo, as Old Man at Hotel. 93-year-old veteran character actor Ian Wolfe plays his last film role as "Munger".
Production
Development
Beatty had a concept for a Dick Tracy film in 1975. At the time, the
That same year, Mutrux and Linson eventually took the property to
In addition to Beatty and Eastwood, other actors considered for the lead role included
Hill and Beatty left the film, which Paramount began developing as a lower-budget project, with
Beatty's reputation for directorial profligacy, notably with the critically acclaimed Reds, did not sit well with Disney.[11] As a result, Beatty and Disney reached a contracted agreement, whereby any budget overruns on Dick Tracy would be deducted from Beatty's fee as producer, director and star.[14] Beatty and regular collaborator Bo Goldman significantly rewrote the dialogue, but lost a Writers Guild arbitration and did not receive screen credit.[7]
Disney
Casting
Although Al Pacino was Beatty's first choice for the role of Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice, Robert De Niro was under consideration.[18] Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathleen Turner and Kim Basinger were too expensive to cast as Breathless Mahoney. Sharon Stone auditioned for the role, but she was turned down.[19][20] Madonna pursued the part of Breathless Mahoney, offering to work for scale.[21] Her resulting paycheck for the film was just $35,000.[7] Sean Young claims she was forced out of the role of Tess Trueheart (which eventually went to Glenne Headly) after rebuffing sexual advances from Beatty. In a 1989 statement, Beatty said, "I made a mistake casting Sean Young in the part and I felt very badly about it."[22] Mike Mazurki, who had appeared in the earlier Dick Tracy film, had a cameo. Beatty approached Gene Hackman to do a cameo in the film, but he declined.[23]
Filming
As filming continued, Disney and Max Allan Collins conflicted over the
Design
Early in the development of Dick Tracy, Beatty decided to make the film using a palette limited to just seven colors — primarily red, green, blue and yellow — to evoke the film's comic strip origins. Furthermore, each of the colors was to be exactly the same shade. Beatty's design team included production designer Richard Sylbert, set decorator
For Storaro, the limited color palette was the most challenging aspect of production. "These are not the kind of colors the audience is used to seeing," he noted. "These are much more dramatic in strength, in saturation. Comic strip art is usually done with very simple and primitive ideas and emotions," Storaro theorized. "One of the elements is that the story is usually told in vignette, so what we tried to do is never move the camera at all. Never. Try to make everything work into the frame."[10] For the matte paintings, Ellenshaw and Lloyd executed over 57 paintings on glass, which were then optically combined with the live action. For a brief sequence in which The Kid dashes in front of a speeding locomotive, only 150 feet (46 m) of real track was laid; the train was a 2-foot (0.61 m) scale model, and the surrounding trainyard a matte painting.[25] The film was one of the last major American studio blockbusters to have no computer-generated imagery.[citation needed]
Caglione and Drexler were recommended for the
Music
"Directors don't know anything about music really, and if they do, it's not necessarily a help. Warren Beatty is a pianist and knows much more about music than almost any director, but when he and I started on Dick Tracy, communicating on a musical level was getting us nowhere because it is all so interpretive. We started having much more success when we started talking on a strictly gut level."
— Danny Elfman[31]
Beatty hired
Dick Tracy is the first film to use
Marketing
Disney modeled its marketing campaign after the 1989 success of
In attempting to increase awareness for Dick Tracy, Disney added a new Roger Rabbit cartoon short ("Roller Coaster Rabbit"), and made two specific television advertisements centered on The Kid (Charlie Korsmo). In total, Disney commissioned 28 TV advertisements.[7] Playmates Toys manufactured a line of 14 Dick Tracy figures.[38]
It was Madonna's idea to include the film as part of her
Max Allan Collins lobbied to write the film's novelization long before Disney had even greenlighted Dick Tracy in 1988. "I hated the idea that anyone else would write a Tracy novel," Collins explained. After much conflict with Disney,[10] leading to seven different printings of the novelization,[33] the book was released in May 1990, published by Bantam Books.[40] It sold almost one million copies prior to the film's release.[33] A graphic novel adaptation of the film was also released, written and illustrated by Kyle Baker.[35]
Reruns of
Reception
Release
Dick Tracy had a benefit premiere at a small 300-seat theater in Woodstock, Illinois (the hometown of Tracy creator Chester Gould), June 13, 1990,[47] while the production premiere occurred the next day at the Walt Disney World Village's Pleasure Island in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.[7][48] The film was released in the United States in 2,332 theaters June 15, 1990, earning $22.54 million in its opening weekend,[3] including an estimated $1.5 million of t-shirt sales.[49] This was the third-highest opening weekend of 1990,[50] and Disney's biggest ever.[49] Dick Tracy eventually grossed $103.74 million in the United States and Canada, and $59 million elsewhere, coming to a worldwide total of $162.74 million.[3] Dick Tracy was also the ninth-highest-grossing film in America in 1990,[50] and number twelve in worldwide totals.[51]
Although Disney was impressed by the opening weekend gross,[33] studio management was expecting the film's total earnings to match Batman.[33] Prior to its overseas release (and other revenue streams), the film was estimated to have generated a $57 million deficit for Disney.[12] Studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg expressed disappointment in a studio memo that noted that Dick Tracy had cost about $100 million total to produce, market and promote. "We made demands on our time, talent and treasury that, upon reflection, may not have been worth it," Katzenberg reported.[52]
When released, it was preceded by the Roger Rabbit short Roller Coaster Rabbit.
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 63%, based on 56 reviews, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The site's critics' consensus reads: "Dick Tracy is stylish, unique, and an undeniable technical triumph, but it ultimately struggles to rise above its two-dimensional artificiality."[53] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[54] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on a scale of A+ to F.[55]
Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "Dick Tracy has just about everything required of an extravaganza: a smashing cast, some great Stephen Sondheim songs, all of the technical wizardry that money can buy, and a screenplay that observes the fine line separating true comedy from lesser camp."[57]
Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave a mixed review, but was impressed by Madonna's performance. "Dick Tracy is an honest effort but finally a bit of a folly. It could have used a little less color and a little more flesh and blood," Gleiberman concluded.[58]
In his heavily negative review for The Washington Post, Desson Thomson criticized Disney's hyped marketing campaign and the film in general. "Dick Tracy is Hollywood's annual celebration of everything that's wrong with Hollywood," he stated.[59]
Although Max Allan Collins (then a Dick Tracy comic-strip writer) had conflicts with Disney concerning the novelization, he gave the finished film a positive review. He praised Beatty for hiring an elaborate design team, and his decision to mimic the strip's limited color palette. Collins also enjoyed Beatty's performance, the prosthetic makeup, and characterization of the
Accolades
The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards (winning three). The film is currently tied with Black Panther for having the most wins for a comic book or comic strip movie.
Legacy
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
- 2003: AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains:
- Dick Tracy – Nominated Hero[74]
- 2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs:
- "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" – Nominated[75]
- 2006: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals – Nominated[76]
Retrospective reviews called the film exceptionally unique. Writers for
Home media release
The film was released on VHS December 18, 1990. It was first released on DVD in Europe in 2000, but domestic release in the U.S. was delayed until April 2, 2002, and without any special features. Shortly after the U.S. DVD release, rumors circulated on the Internet that Warren Beatty had planned to release a director's cut under Disney's "Vista Series" label; including at least ten extra minutes of footage.[81] As of 1992, Dick Tracy sold 1 million copies in the U.S., according to The Hollywood Reporter.[82]
The Blu-ray was released in the U.S. and Canada December 11, 2012. This release lacked special features, save for a digital copy.[83]
Possible sequel and legal issues
Disney had hoped Dick Tracy would launch a successful franchise, like the Indiana Jones series, but Disney halted plans.[2] In addition, executive producers Art Linson and Floyd Mutrux sued Beatty shortly after the release of the film, alleging they were owed profit participation from the film.[35]
Beatty purchased the Dick Tracy film and television rights in 1985 from
Disney, which had no intention of producing a sequel, rejected Tribune's claim, and gave back to Beatty most of the rights in May 2005.
Tribune believed the situation would be settled quickly,
In 2010, Turner Classic Movies broadcast the Dick Tracy Special. Shot in late 2008, Beatty enlisted cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and film critic Leonard Maltin to make the 30-minute television special, which featured Beatty as Tracy in a retrospective interview with Maltin.[92][93][94] Maltin explicitly asked the fictional Tracy if Warren Beatty planned to make a sequel to the 1990 film, and he responded that he had heard about that, but Maltin needed to ask Beatty himself.[93]
On March 25, 2011, U.S. District Court Judge Dean D. Pregerson granted Beatty's request for a summary judgment, and ruled in the actor's favor. Judge Pregerson wrote in his order that "Beatty's commencement of principal photography of his television special on November 8, 2008 was sufficient for him to retain the Dick Tracy rights."[95] Beatty's lawyer said the court found that Beatty had done everything contractually required of him to keep the rights to the character.[96]
In June 2011, Beatty confirmed his intention to make a sequel to Dick Tracy, but he refused to discuss details. He said, "I'm gonna make another one [but] I think it's dumb talking about movies before you make them. I just don't do it. It gives you the perfect excuse to avoid making them." When asked when the sequel would get made, he replied, "I take so long to get around to making a movie that I don’t know when it starts."[81]
In April 2016, Beatty again mentioned the possibility of producing a sequel when he attended CinemaCon.[97]
In February 2023, Turner Classic Movies aired Dick Tracy Special: Tracy Zooms In, a 30-minute television special similar to the 2010 Dick Tracy Special. The special consists mostly of a Zoom interview, featuring Beatty appearing as both Tracy and himself, opposite Ben Mankiewicz and a returning Leonard Maltin. In it, Tracy criticizes aspects of the 1990 film adaptation to Beatty's face, and suggests that a younger actor should take over the role of Tracy. It concludes with Beatty and Tracy meeting in person, and suggesting that Dick Tracy will return in the future.[98][94]
Although there have not been any sequels in either television nor motion picture form, there have been sequels in novel form. Shortly after the release of the 1990 film, Max Allan Collins wrote Dick Tracy Goes to War. The story is set after the commencement of
See also
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Further reading
- Mike Bonifer (June 1990). Dick Tracy: The Making of the Movie. New York City: ISBN 0-553-34900-7.
- David Hughes (2003). "Dick Tracy". Comic Book Movies. London: ISBN 0-7535-0767-6.
- ISBN 0-684-80993-1.
- ISBN 978-0-553-28528-4.
External links
- Dick Tracy at IMDb
- Dick Tracy at AllMovie
- Dick Tracy at Box Office Mojo
- Dick Tracy at Rotten Tomatoes