Dick Tracy (1990 film)

Dick Tracy is a 1990 film about the Dick Tracy comic strip character created by Chester Gould.

Directed by Warren Beatty. Written by Jim Cash and Joe Epps Jr.

I'm on my way! (taglines)

Dick Tracy

Tess, you're one in a million.
Take the bad men away. They scare me.

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Big Boy Caprice

Because I have a vision. A big boss must have a vision. We gotta town with thousands of small stores and bussinesses. People are working real hard. I think they should be working real hard. For us. Because we are for the people. "And if you ain't for the people, you can't buy the people." Lincoln.
There was one Napoleon...one Washington...one me!
All right, that is enough! I want them dead, both of them. I want Tracy dead and I want this no-face character dead. What's the matter, you bums forgot how to kill people? Doesn't your work mean anything to you anymore? Have you no sense of pride in what you do? No sense of duty, no sense of destiny? I'm looking for generals; what do I got? Foot soldiers! I want Dick Tracy DEAD!!!

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Others

Itchy: Well, I guess that's the end of Dick! [snickering] Thirty seconds, no more Dick! Thirty seconds, no more Dick! Thirty seconds, no more Dick!
Kid / Dick Tracy Jr.: When do we eat?
Mrs. Trueheart: You have to understand Tess, that Dick Tracy is a hard man on himself. He could get elected President of the United States and complain that he was relegated to a desk job.
Flattop{shooting a wall with a machine gun}: EAT LEAD TRACY.

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Dialogue

Wheelhouse of drawbridge. Big Boy has forced Lips Manlis into a steel box and is pouring wet concrete into it

Big Boy Caprice: Oh look Lips, you dirtied your pretty tuxedo. Looks like you need a bath!

Lips Manlis: The "Bath"?! Not "the bath", Big Boy, not "the bath"!

Big Boy Caprice: It was great working for you but now it is time to retire.

Lips Manlis: Ain't we pals, Big Boy? Ain't we pals?

Big Boy Caprice: There are no pals in this business, Lips, you taught me that! one of his many misquotes I hate to do this, and I'm gonna miss you, but all is fair in love and business. -Benjamin Franklin.

Big Boy's hoods seal box and open trap door

Lips Manlis: NO!

Big Boy Caprice: All right, put the word out! Lips territory is my territory now. Anyone who was working for him, is working for me. Everything he owns, I own!

Breathless Mahoney: Thanks for calling. I was beginning to wonder what a girl had to do to get arrested.

Dick: Wearing that dress is a step in the right direction.

Breathless: Are you going to make a move or do I have to do it?

Dick: I'm on duty.

Breathless: When's your day off?

Dick: Sunday.

Breathless: It's a big world it must be Sunday somewhere. Does it feel hot to you?

Dick: Hot?

Breathless thrusts herself towards his desk revealing his voluptous figure

Kid: I don't like dames.

Tess: Good. Me neither.

Tracy residence. Knock on door

Dick Tracy: Who is it?

Offstage voice: Mr. Tracy, this is Mrs. Snide from the orphanage. We need to speak to you about the runaway you have been harboring.

Dick Tracy: I did not hear anything from the orphanage about this.

Tracy opens door to be greeted by Shoulders, Flattop and Itchy, who are ready to pounce on him

88 Keys:Yeah we've been doing it all night, it is 2 A.M.

Big Boy Caprice:It's 2 am....I'm about to turn this dump into the birthplace of a new era of entertainment, you're telling me it's 2am Smashes 88 Keys fingers Play the Piano!

Breathless: That was a silly thing to do he's the best piano player in town

Big Boy Caprice: Shut up!

Dick Tracy: Mumbles, do you care to go over that again?

Ceramic bear that pours water, Tracy removes head to reveal a hidden tape recorder

Recorder: Rigwoydidit...rewinds...Wig woy idit...rewinds again...Big Boy did it.

Tracy departs interrogation room

Mumbles: W-w-wait!

Tracy turns around

Mumbles: 88 Keys, the piano man set you up. Big Boy paid him to get you out of the way.

Tracy is astonished to see Mumbles speaking clearly

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