Trivia and Quotes
Trivia
 The make-up used for all of the villains was based directly on how they were drawn by Chester Gould in the original comic strip. The only
exception was Big Boy Caprice, whose make-up was designed by Al Pacino
himself. The five villains appearing in the beginning playing cards are: Stooge,
Shoulders, The Rodent, The Brow and Little Face.
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Dustin Hoffman made a cameo as Mumbles as a favor for Warren Beatty.
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Of all the villains, "Numbers" Norton (played by James Tolkan) was the
only one created for the film.
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Dick Van Dyke who only worked on the film for three days, broke his
shoulder when he was shooting the scene where his character is murdered by The Blank. That take was the one that was eventually used in the film.
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The villains, in this film, have an infrastructure (i.e. Big Boy is the
boss of Flattop and Itchy, Lips Manlis is the boss of the five card-
playing villains in the beginning), unlike in the comic where villains each arose and fought Tracy one-by-one in a fashion largely independent of each other with no hierarchy.
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As a tie-in with the movie, Walt Disney comics released "Dick Tracy: The Tommy Guns and Truehearts Trilogy" which explained the back story leading up to the movie with the actual film plot used as the third installment.
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The garage shooting that opens the movie was inspired by the "St.
Valentine`s Day Massacre" in which Al Capone`s gunmen killed a group of
rival hoods in a garage. In the Dick Tracy comics, "Big Boy" Caprice character was originally was inspired by Al Capone.
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One of the hardest characters for the make-up artists to create was "Littleface" Finney, one of the hoodlums killed in the garage shootout at the beginning of the film. The character, as created in the comics, has a normal sized head with a face no bigger the average adult nose. In order to create this effect, a child was cast as Finney and then fitted into an over-sized body and made-up head as shown by behind the scenes photos. His voice is overdubbed in the film and cut-away shots where you only see his
back were done with an adult actor.
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The main colors in the film are the six that the original comic strip appeared in: red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, plus black and white.
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Warren Beatty
(as Dick Tracy)
with Madonna
(as Breathless Mahoney)
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