Dick Tracy (1990 film)

Dick Tracy is a 1990 American action comedy 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, which features supporting roles from Al Pacino, Charles Durning, Madonna, Dustin Hoffman, William Forsythe, Glenne Headly, Paul Sorvino, Dick Van Dyke, and Charlie Korsmo. Dick Tracy depicts the detectives love relationships with Breathless Mahoney and Tess Truehart, as well as his conflicts with crime boss Alphonse Big Boy Caprice. Tracy also begins his upbringing of The Kid.

At an illegal card game, a young street urchin Charlie Korsmo witnesses the massacre of a group of mobsters named Shoulders Stig Eldred, Stooge Jim Wilkey, the Rodent Neil Summers, the Brow Chuck Hicks and Little Face Lawrence Steven Meyers at the hands of Flattop William Forsythe and Itchy Ed ORoss, two of the hoods on the payroll of Alphonse Big Boy Caprice Al Pacino. Big Boys crime syndicate is aggressively taking over small businesses in the city. Detective Dick Tracy Warren Beatty 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 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 with a cement overcoat referred to onscreen as The Bath and steals his girlfriend, the seductive and sultry singer, Breathless Mahoney Madonna. After Lips is reported missing, Tracy interrogates his three hired guns Flattop, Itchy, and Mumbles Dustin Hoffman, then goes to the club to arrest Big Boy for Lips murder. Breathless is the only witness. Instead of providing testimony, she unsuccessfully attempts to seduce Tracy. Big Boy cannot be indicted and he is released from jail. Big Boys next move is to try to bring other criminals, including Spud Spaldoni James Caan, Pruneface R. G. Armstrong, Influence Henry Silva, Texie Garcia Catherine OHara, Ribs Mocca Robert Beecher, and Numbers James Tolkan, together under his leadership. Spaldoni refuses and meets an untimely demise upon exiting via a carbomb, leaving Dick Tracy, who discovered the meeting and was attempting to spy on it, wondering what is going on. Next day, Big Boy and his henchmen kidnap Tracy and attempt to bribe him Tracy refuses, prompting the criminals to attempt to kill him by tying him next to a boiler rigged to explode. However, Tracy is saved by Kid, who gets prized by the police with a Honorary Detec

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