Finler (2003), p. 42. Prince (2002) gives $9 million as the average production cost in 1980, and a total of $13 million after adding on costs for manufacturing exhibition prints and marketing (p. 20). See also p. 21, chart 1.2. The Box Office Mojo website gives $9.4 million as the 1980 production figure; see "Movie Box Office Results by Year, 1980–Present". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on December 30, 2006. Retrieved December 29, 2006.
"1990 Yearly Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on December 6, 2006. Retrieved December 29, 2006. Dick Tracy literally had been B movie material—the character was featured in four low-budget RKO films in the 1940s. For how espionage and crimebusting thrillers were long "widely regarded as nothing more than B-movie fodder," see Chapman (2000), pp. 46–50.
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Quoted in Reynaud (2006). See Reynaud also for Loden's fundraising efforts. See also Reynaud, Bérénice (1995). "For Wanda". Sense of Cinema. Retrieved December 29, 2006.
Finler (2003), p. 42. Prince (2002) gives $9 million as the average production cost in 1980, and a total of $13 million after adding on costs for manufacturing exhibition prints and marketing (p. 20). See also p. 21, chart 1.2. The Box Office Mojo website gives $9.4 million as the 1980 production figure; see "Movie Box Office Results by Year, 1980–Present". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on December 30, 2006. Retrieved December 29, 2006.
"1990 Yearly Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on December 6, 2006. Retrieved December 29, 2006. Dick Tracy literally had been B movie material—the character was featured in four low-budget RKO films in the 1940s. For how espionage and crimebusting thrillers were long "widely regarded as nothing more than B-movie fodder," see Chapman (2000), pp. 46–50.
