Dick Tracy

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.

• Director: Warren Beatty
• Genre:Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
• Runtime:101 minutes

Cast

Warren Beatty : Dick Tracy
Charlie Korsmo : Kid
Michael Donovan O’Donnell : McGillicuddy
Jim Wilkey : Stooge
Stig Eldred : Shoulders

At an illegal card game, a young street urchin witnesses the massacre of mobsters Shoulders (Stig Eldrid), Stooge (Jim Wilkey), the Rodent (Neil Summers), the Brow (Chuck Hicks), and Little Face (Lawrence Steven Meyers) by Flattop (William Forsythe) and Itchy (Ed O’Ross). Flattop and Itchy are on the payroll of “Big Boy” Caprice (Al Pacino) whose crime syndicate is aggressively taking over small businesses in the city. Detective Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) catches the urchin (who calls himself “Kid”) (Charlie Korsmo) in an act of petty theft. After rescuing him from a ruthless guardian, Tracy temporarily adopts him with the help of his girlfriend, Tess Truehart (Glenne Headly).

Meanwhile, Big Boy coerces club owner Lips Manlis (Paul Sorvino) into signing over the deed to Club Ritz. He then kills Lips by placing him in a cement-filled box and dropping it into the river while one of his men shoots an eavesdropping policeman. Big Boy also steals his girlfriend, the seductive and sultry singer Breathless Mahoney (Madonna) and takes her to spread the word that anyone who worked for Lips now works for him. After police find Lips’ body, Tracy goes to arrests Big Boy for Lips’ murder, but there is no useful physical evidence and Breathless is the only witness. Instead of providing testimony, she unsuccessfully attempts to seduce Tracy. Big Boy cannot be convicted and he is released from jail. Big Boy’s next move is to try to bring other criminals Spud Spaldoni (James Caan), Pruneface (R. G. Armstrong), Influence (Henry Silva), Ribs Mocca (Robert Beecher), Mumbles (Dustin Hoffman), Texie Garcia (Catherine O’Hara), and Numbers (James Tolkan) together under his leadership while Dick Tracy overhears the meeting while staying out of view. Spaldoni refuses stating that he has his own business to run and meets an untimely demise that night when he falls victim to a car bomb upon leaving the meeting area. Having witnessed this meeting, Tracy tries again to get the testimony from Breathless he needs to put Big Boy away.

She agrees to testify only if Tracy agrees to give in to her advances. He resists, despite his growing attraction. Meanwhile, Big Boy has the detective kidnapped in order to try to bribe him, but the Kid, who has followed the detective and is watching, is deeply impressed when Tracy refuses to be corrupted and saves him when the gangsters attempt to then kill him. To retaliate, Tracy leads a seemingly unsuccessful raid on Club Ritz, but one of his men plants a listening device with a operative, “Bug” Bradley, in the attic so the police can hear in on Big Boy’s criminal activities. The resultant raids all but wipe out Big Boy’s criminal empire. Caprice discovers the microphone, sets up a trap to kill Tracy and the captured Bradley in a warehouse, but a figure with no face (known as “The Blank”) steps out of the shadows to save them. Meanwhile, Breathless shows up at Tracy’s apartment, once again in an attempt to seduce him. Tracy shows he is only human by allowing her to kiss him. Tess witnesses this and leaves town. She eventually has a change of heart. But before she can tell Tracy, she is kidnapped by The Blank. Tracy falls victim to another trap. He is drugged by The Blank and framed for the murder of corrupt District Attorney John Fletcher (Dick Van Dyke). Read more

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