Dick Tracy (1945 film)
Dick Tracy( also known as Dick Tracy, Detective) is a 1945 American film noir pulp action film based on the Dick Tracy comic strip created by Chester Gould.
The film is the first of four installment of the Dick Tracy film series, released by RKO Radio Pictures.
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, whose supporting roles include Al Pacino, Madonna, Glenne Headly, and Charlie Korsmo.
" Dick Tracy" depicts the detective's romantic relationships with Breathless Mahoney and Tess Trueheart, as well as his conflicts with crime boss Alphonse" Big Boy" Caprice and his henchmen.
Tracy also begins fostering a young street urchin named Kid.
Development of the film began in the early 1980s with Tom Mankiewicz assigned to write the script.
The screenplay would instead be crafted by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr., both of" Top Gun" fame.
The project also went through directors Steven Spielberg, John Landis, Walter Hill, and Richard Benjamin before the arrival of Beatty.
It was filmed mainly at Universal Studios.
Danny Elfman was hired to compose the score, and the film's music was featured on three separate soundtrack albums.
" Dick Tracy" premiered at the Walt Disney World resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, on June 14, 1990.
It was released nationwide a day later to mixed reviews, but was a success at the box office and at awards time.
It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, winning in three of the categories: Best Original Song, Best Makeup, and Best Art Direction.
A sequel was planned, but controversy over the film rights ensued between Beatty and Tribune Media Services.
The lawsuit was resolved in Beatty's favor in October, 2013.
However, no plans for a sequel or follow- up have been publicly disclosed.
Beatty created" The Dick Tracy TV Special" in 2008, which featured him reprising the character, and in which he is interviewed by film critic Leonard Maltin.
Dick Tracy's G-Men
Dick Tracy's G- Men( 1939) is a 15- Chapter Republic movie serial based on the" Dick Tracy" comic strip by Chester Gould.
It was directed by William Witney and John English.
This serial was the fifteenth of the sixty- six produced by Republic and the third Dick Tracy serial( there would be one more," Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc.", in 1941).
As with all four Dick Tracy serials, Ralph Byrd plays the lead.
This time he faces Irving Pichel as the spy with a vendetta, Zarnoff.
Future Academy Award winner Jennifer Jones co-stars as Gwen Andrews.
" G- Man" is a contemporary slang term for an agent of the FBI.
In the comic strip, Dick Tracy is actually a detective in the police force of an unnamed Midwestern city resembling Chicago.
This was changed for the serial.
Lady Cops
Lady Cops or Les Keufs is a 1987 French comedy film directed by Josiane Balasko.
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome( also known as Dick Tracy Meets Karloff and Dick Tracy's Amazing Adventure( UK)) is a 1947 thriller film starring Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, and Anne Gwynne.
The film is the fourth and final installment of the" Dick Tracy" film series released by RKO Radio Pictures.
The Super Cops
The Super Cops is a 1974 action adventure film directed by Gordon Parks and starring Ron Leibman and David Selby.
The film is based on the book" The Super Cops: The True Story of the Cops Called Batman and Robin" by L. H. Whittemore.
The film was released a few months after the successful cop movie" Serpico"( also based on a true story).
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Dick Tracy's Dilemma, released in the United Kingdom as Mark of the Claw, is a 1947 American pulp action film based on the 1930s comic strip character of the same name created by Chester Gould.
Ralph Byrd stars as Dick Tracy, reprising the role after Republic Pictures's 1937 "Dick Tracy" serial and its three sequels.
Preceded by "Dick Tracy vs. Cueball", the film is the third installment of the "Dick Tracy" film series released by RKO Radio Pictures.
The follow-up to "Dick Tracy's Dilemma" was "Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome" (1947), the fourth and last entry in the RKO series.
Dick Tracy, the character next made the move to television.
The program ran for 39 episodes in the 1950-1951 season.
Ralph Byrd may well have played Dick Tracy in further adventures had he not died unexpectedly, of a heart attack, on August 18, 1952 at age forty-three.
Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beatty( born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker.
He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for" Reds"( 1981).
Beatty is the only person to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice: first for" Heaven Can Wait"( with Buck Henry as co-director), and again with" Reds".
Eight of the films he has produced have earned 53 Academy nominations, and in 1999, he was awarded the Academy's highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award.
Beatty has been nominated for eighteen Golden Globe Awards, winning six, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which he was honored with in 2007.
Among his Golden Globe- nominated films are" Splendor in the Grass"( 1961), his screen debut, and" Bonnie and Clyde"( 1967)," Shampoo"( 1975)," Heaven Can Wait"( 1978)," Reds"( 1981)," Dick Tracy"( 1990)," Bugsy"( 1991)," Bulworth"( 1998) and" Rules Do n't Apply"( 2016), all of which he also produced.
Director and collaborator Arthur Penn described Beatty as" the perfect producer", adding," He makes everyone demand the best of themselves.
Warren stays with a picture through editing, mixing and scoring.
He plain works harder than anyone else I have ever seen."
Gordon Parks
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African-Americans—and in glamour photography.
As the first famous pioneer among black filmmakers, he was the first African American to produce and direct major motion pictures—developing films relating the experience of slaves and struggling black Americans, and creating the "blaxploitation" genre.
He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s (taken for a federal government project), for his photographic essays for "Life" magazine, and as the director of the 1971 film "Shaft".
Parks also was an author, poet and composer.
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball is a 1946 American film based on the 1930s comic strip character of the same name created by Chester Gould.
The film stars Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy in the second installment of the" Dick Tracy" film series released by RKO Radio Pictures.

Question: Which film has the director who is older than the other, The Super Cops or Dick Tracy (1990 Film)? 
Answer: The Super Cops