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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Year:
Duration:
88 min
Genres:
Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
IMDB rate:
6.8
Director:
Carl Reiner
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1982-05-21
Filming Locations: Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA
Earnings
Opening Weekend: $4,289,601 (USA) (23 May 1982)
Gross: $18,196,170 (USA) (5 July 1982)
Cast
Actor
Character
Steve Martin
Rigby Reardon
Rachel Ward
Juliet Forrest
Alan Ladd
The Exterminator
Carl Reiner
Field Marshall VonKluck
Barbara Stanwyck
Leona Hastings-Forrest (archive footage)
Ray Milland
Sam Hastings (in 'Lost Weekend')
Ava Gardner
Kitty Collins
Burt Lancaster
Swede Anderson
Humphrey Bogart
Phillip Marlowe
Cary Grant
(in "Suspicion") (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman
F.X. Huberman (archive footage)
Veronica Lake
Monica Stillpond (archive footage)
Bette Davis
Doris Davermont (archive footage)
Lana Turner
Jimmi-Sue Altfeld (archive footage)
Edward Arnold
Altfeld (archive footage)
Kirk Douglas
Thug Boss (archive footage)
Fred MacMurray
Walter Neff
James Cagney
Captain Cody Jarrett
Joan Crawford
Margaret (archive footage)
Reni Santoni
Carlos Rodriguez
Charles Laughton
The Fat One Who Sweats a Lot
Vincent Price
Rice
George Gaynes
Dr. Forrest
Francis X. McCarthy
Waiter (as Frank McCarthy)
Adrian Ricard
Mildred
Charlie Picerni
Hood (as Charles Picerni)
Gene LeBell
Hood (as Gene Labell)
George Sawaya
Hood
Britt Nilsson
Puppy Secretary
Jean Beaudine
Duty Secretary
John Easton Stuart
German Henchman (as John 'Easton' Stuart)
Ronald Spivey
German Henchman
Bob Hevelone
German Henchman
Dieter Curt
German Henchman
Phillip Kearns
German Henchman (as Phil Kearns)
Kent Deigaard
German Henchman
Eugene Brezany
German Henchman
Brad Baird
German Henchman
William Conrad
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Charles McGraw
in The Killers (archive footage)
Jeff Corey
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
John Miljan
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Brian Donlevy
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Norma Varden
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Edmond O'Brien
(in "White Heat") (archive footage)
Wally Brown
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Cheryl Smith
Veronica Lake
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Trivia
While Steve Martin's character is at the bar in Carlotta, a clip is used of Charles Laughton from The Bribe (1949) asking, "You know who I could be?" and Martin replies, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame?" Laughton played that role in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939).
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Second of four films that actor Steve Martin has made with director Carl Reiner. The other movies are The Jerk (1979), All of Me (1984) and The Man with Two Brains (1983).
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The movie was part of, if not arrived shortly after, the end of a cycle of a number of 1970s spoofs of film noir and hard-boiled detective films of the 1940s from the likes of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, some of which starred Humphrey Bogart, who was the main target of the parodies. The films included Murder by Death (1976) and The Cheap Detective (1978), both from Neil Simon, Peeper (1976), The Long Goodbye (1973), Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam (1972), and The Man with Bogart's Face (1980).
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Goofs
When Rigby (Steve Martin) is exchanging a $5 bill for a $1 bill with Ray Milland through the cracked open doorway, you can clearly see that the bill is marked "Series 1969" which is about 25 years after the time the film is set in.
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The newspaper in the opening scene has a large headline saying "Dodgers Lose Again." But that wouldn't have been a big deal for a Los Angeles paper in the 1940s -- the Dodgers didn't move there from Brooklyn until 1958.
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When Juliet first sucks a bullet out of Rigby, she wipes off her lipstick first. After sucking out the bullet, she's wearing lipstick again although she never reapplied any.
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Quotes
Rigby Reardon: If you want me to investigate your father's death, I get ten dollars a day - plus expenses.
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Rigby Reardon: [drugged] Let's go out dancing! You put on your black dress, and I'll go shave my tongue.
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Rigby Reardon: [on the phone with Marlowe] You wearing a tie?
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