In just his first 20 years of existence, there were four Dick Tracy movie serials, four feature films, a TV series, and countless items of merchandise. But many modern fans know the character best ...

It was natural that lifelong Dick Tracy fans would expect him to appear in the movie, and it was Landis who insisted that the character be included. “That was John’s big note,” Epps says.

In the first movie, “Dick Tracy,” the main character went up against ... around when the next chapter appeared. In 1945, when RKO bought the screen rights to the comic strip and decided ...

That film, Dick Tracy, which turns 25 this week, is a weird footnote in the history of comics-based movies. To study it right now is to find it anachronistic, to label its approach to making ...

At a time when comic book movie sequels get a go-ahead before ... with Warren Beatty’s 1990 adaptation of Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, a comic strip that premiered back in 1931 and ran ...

By the mid-1940s he was a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, and he was chosen to portray Chester Gould's comic-strip detective Dick Tracy in a pair of feature films: Dick Tracy and Dick ...

See all of Slate’s Summer Movies coverage. On the evening of June ... The T-shirts doubled as tickets to the first public screenings of Dick Tracy. Beneath Beatty’s image were the words ...

However, in the shadow of the evolution of comic book adaptations some two decades on, Dick Tracy has lost none of ... 2008 and has since reviewed 100s of movies. Ben is based in Australia and ...

In retrospect, Dick Tracy probably represents Madonna at the peak-iest of the many, many peaks in her career. The movie came hot off the heels of her groundbreaking Like a Prayer album ...