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Release Date: 1982

Cast: Bob Hevelone, Carl Reiner, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Brian Donlevy, Fred MacMurray, Jeff Corey, Gene LeBell, Norma Varden, Cary Grant, Adrian Ricard, Reni Santoni, George Gaynes ...MORE

Cast: Bob Hevelone, Carl Reiner, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Brian Donlevy, Fred MacMurray, Jeff Corey, Gene LeBell, Norma Varden, Cary Grant, Adrian Ricard, Reni Santoni, George Gaynes, Charles Laughton, Eugene Brezany, Kent Deigaard, Cheryl Lynn "Rainbeaux" Smith, Charlie Picerni, Chevy Chase, Rachel Ward, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Phillip Kearns, John Easton Stuart, Edmond O'Brien, Steve Martin, Brad Baird, James Cagney, Edward Arnold, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Jean Beaudine, Charles McGraw, Francis X. McCarthy, Kirk Douglas, John Miljan, Dieter Curt, George Sawaya, Wally Brown, Ronald Spivey, Lana Turner, William Conrad, Ray Milland, Ava Gardner ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Parody, Action/Adventure, Film Noir, Comedy, Detective, Black-And-White, Action, Detective Fiction

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a 1982 Satire film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Rachel Ward. It is both a parody of, and an homage to, film noir and the pulp detective movies of the 1940s. Edited by Bud Molin, the film is a collage of black-and-white movie clips from 18 different films with more recent footage of Martin and other actors similarly shot in black-and-white, with the result that the original dialogue and acting of the historic films have now become part of a completely different (and ridiculous) story. Among the actors who appear from classic films are... MORE

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a 1982 Satire film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Rachel Ward. It is both a parody of, and an homage to, film noir and the pulp detective movies of the 1940s. Edited by Bud Molin, the film is a collage of black-and-white movie clips from 18 different films with more recent footage of Martin and other actors similarly shot in black-and-white, with the result that the original dialogue and acting of the historic films have now become part of a completely different (and ridiculous) story. Among the actors who appear from classic films are Edward Arnold, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Wally Brown, James Cagney, William Conrad, Jeff Corey, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Brian Donlevy, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Burt Lancaster, Charles Laughton, Charles McGraw, Fred MacMurray, John Miljan, Ray Milland, Edmund O'Brien, Vincent Price, Barbara Stanwyck, Lana Turner and Norma Varden. This was the last film for both costume designer Edith Head and composer Miklós Rózsa. In the opening scene, John Hay Forrest (George Gaynes), noted scientist and cheesemaker, dies in a single-vehicle car accident LESS