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May 21, 1982 · Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid: Directed by Carl Reiner. With Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd, Carl Reiner. Film noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot.
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- Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- Carl Reiner
- 1982-05-21
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a 1982 American neo-noir mystery comedy film directed, co-written by, and co-starring Carl Reiner and co-written by and starring Steve Martin. Co-starring Rachel Ward, the film is both a parody of and a homage to film noir and the pulp detective films of the 1940s. [2] The title refers to Martin's character telling ...
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Filter by Rating: 8/10. Steve Martin's Affectionate Parody of 1940's Thrillers. stryker-5 11 December 1998. Rigby Reardon, private eye, runs the gauntlet of hoods, femmes fatales and crazed Nazis as he investigates the death of beautiful Juliet Forrest's father.
Jun 26, 2003 · The concept for Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid evolved throughout production; originally a Martin script called Depression, it went through several rewrites before emerging as the final version; the idea of integrating old movie clips came about during the revision process. With so many aspects going into a production, it was inevitable that some ...
- Carl Reiner
- Steve Martin
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
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A good-natured spoof, in glorious black and white, on the detective genre, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid attempted (with varying degrees of success) to recreate film noir by splicing into its narrative, clips from seventeen noir movies of 1940s vintage. Thus hero Steve Martin, as a ten dollar-a-day gumshoe called Rigby Reardon, is able to call on.
