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Dick Tracy is a 1990 American action crime film based on the 1930s comic strip character of the same name created by Chester Gould. Warren Beatty produced, directed and starred in the film, whose supporting cast includes Al Pacino, Madonna, Glenne Headly and Charlie Korsmo, with appearances by Dustin Hoffman, James Keane, Charles Durning ...
Jun 15, 2015 · Even with a beloved character to chronicle and a star-studded cast under its belt, Dick Tracy took a big risk that’s yet to be replicated in the comic-book movie genre: it’s basically a...
- It Was Originally called Plainclothes Tracy.
- It Depicted The First Comic Strip Murder.
- The Strip Was Criticized For Being Too violent.
- Gould Immersed Himself in Police Techniques.
- Readers Took The Death of Villain Flattop Very Seriously.
- He Went to The Moon.
- He Once Grew A Mustache.
- He Cooperated with The Real FBI to Solve Real cases.
- He Almost Got A Divorce.
- He Found The Missing Little Orphan Annie.
After taking art correspondence courses as a teenager, Pawnee, Oklahoma native Chester Gould decided that one way to get rich would be to create a comic strip that would be syndicated all over the country. Early attempts like Radio Cats were “strictly stinkeroo,” he recalled. Eventually, Gould—who had moved to Chicago—decided that in order to stand...
Strips of the early 20th century were almost exclusively humorous in nature; even police were depicted as slightly buffoonish. Dick Tracy may have been the first attempt at a serious serialized drama on the funny pages. When Patterson accepted the pitch, he suggested to Gould that Tracy become a detective as a result of crime hitting close to home....
Even people unfamiliar with Dick Tracy have at least some passing knowledge of its colorful library of villains: Pruneface, Flyface, the Mole, Flattop, the Brow. Fearing readers might tire of villains, Gould killedthem off with regularity—and in some astonishingly violent ways. The Brow was impaled on a flagpole; a rabid dog attacked one, while ano...
While much of Tracy was sensational in nature—few actual cops relied on video watches or almost exclusively hunted disfigured crooks—Gould still wanted to portraypolice work as accurately as he could. The artist took courses in ballistics, fingerprinting, forensics, and other procedural techniques to remain current on the latest investigative tools...
A flat-headed criminal, Flattop spent several weeks in 1944 facing off against Tracy before a Gould-ish ugly death by drowning and an unceremonious burial in a field. He was a charming killer, though, and readers took his demise to heart. According to Life, Gould got telegrams from people offering to “claim” his body, and the strip’s syndicate offi...
Despite its grounded depictions of police work, Gould wasn’t above inserting a bit of comic frivolity into his strip. At the height of the Space Race in the 1960s, Gould began a series where Tracy’s police force devised a method of traveling to the moon to battle space crime. Somewhat derisively known as the “moon period,” Tracy spent time in outer...
As reactionary as the strip had been to 1960s politics, Gould doubled down in the 1970s. Hoping to contemporize the square Tracy for hipper audiences, the artist depictedthe detective with sideburns and a mustache. He even gained a new partner: “Groovy” Grove, a with-it detective.
In a rare instance of fictional law enforcement getting involved in real cases, in 1999 the FBI worked with the then-current Dick Tracycreative team of Mike Kilian and Dick Locher to publicize real criminals in the strip. (Gould died in 1985.) Top 10 Most Wanted fugitives were profiled in the hopes someone might recognize them. In 2002, the strip d...
Tracy spent 18 years engaged to Tess Trueheart before finally marrying her in 1949. After 45 years of wedded bliss, the couple nearly got a divorce in 1994: Tess was apparently fed up with Tracy’s long hours and unwavering commitment to law enforcement and served him with papers. Deemed a publicity stunt, the couple reconciledafter taking a vacatio...
Little Orphan Annie ended its comic strip run in 2010 with the title character believed missing in Guatemala. Since both characters are owned by Tribune Media Services, it was only fitting that Dick Tracy was summoned to find her. The detective began his search in mid-2014, eventually findingAnnie being held on a private island that September.
Jun 15, 2015 · With prosthetics virtually obscuring the familiar faces of legendary actors Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman, its matte paintings, and its unique color schemes, Warren Beatty’s big-screen take on...
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Jun 17, 2015 · Dick Tracy only managed to make a little under $104 million domestically, with another $59 million coming in from overseas. Details of the film’s final budget differ (with Variety suggesting it...
Jun 15, 2020 · While the Dick Tracy mythology has no shortage of memorable bad guys to choose from, the movie’s main villain was decided early on, back when Landis first enlisted Cash and Epps to write the...
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Jun 15, 2020 · 30 years ago Disney released the heavily hyped Warren Beatty vehicle Dick Tracy. We go inside the making of the movie and its strange legacy.
