Passionate About Pulp: Revisiting Dick Tracy (1990)
By Angie Barry
July 25, 2016THE SUBGENRE: Comic book noir. THE HERO: Hardnosed detective Dick Tracy. THE VILLAIN: Crime boss Alphonse “Big Boy” Caprice. THE LOVE INTEREST(S): Loyal “Girl Friday” Tess Trueheart and gangster's moll Breathless Mahoney. THE SETTING: A 1920's metropolis. Pulp fiction gets a bad name in my opinion—no, not the Quentin Tarantino flick where Travolta jams a…