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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
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PG,1hr 29min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1982
Director:
Carl Reiner
Distributor:
Universal Studios
Starring:
Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Reni Santoni  ...more
Synopsis: In this post-modernist exercise, star/writer Steve Martin and director Carl Reiner spoof the film noir yarns of the '40s with Martin playing gumshoe Rigby Reardon, who interacts with a legion of Hollywood greats -- including Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Edward Arnold, Barbara Stanwyck, Ingrid Bergman, Veronica Lake, Bette Davis, Lana Turner and Joan Crawford -- in a succession of intercut clips from seventeen vintage Hollywood films. Rigby is a low-rent detective (his fee is $10 ... Full Synopsis
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Matthew Doberman, AMG Review
Carl Reiner's concept movie allows Steve Martin, one of the great comic talents of the latter half of the 20th century, to interact with the great actors of days past. It is not simply a parody of old movies but a tribute to them, a spoof with reverence. And who better to play the not-quite-hard-boiled detective who brings it all together than Martin? While the hijacked actors deliver their lines ... Full Review
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Steve Martin
Rigby Reardon
Rachel Ward
Juliet Forrest
Reni Santoni
Carlos Rodriguez
Carl Reiner
Field Marshall Von Kluck
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