“A one joke movie? Perhaps, but it’s such an engaging joke that anyone who loves old movies will find it irresistible. And anyone who loves Steve Martin will be fascinated by his sly performance, which is pitched exactly between the low comedy of The Jerk and the highbrow Brechtianisms of Pennies from Heaven.”
In tribute to Carl Reiner 1922 - 2020
Carl Reiner’s parody/homage to 1940s pulpy noir feels like the perfect tribute for a film club to pay. Steve Martin and Rachel Ward star alongside dozens of Hollywood greats (full list below!) in this brilliant combination of laughs and nifty editing.
Watch Nigel’s introduction below where he talks more about how the filmmakers recreated that Old Hollywood look. Underneath the video we’ve also listed all the classic movies clipped up in the film.
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Who else stars in Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid?
Alan Ladd (from This Gun for Hire)
Barbara Stanwyck (from Sorry, Wrong Number)
Ray Milland (from The Lost Weekend)
Ava Gardner (from The Killers & The Bribe)
Burt Lancaster (from The Killers)
Humphrey Bogart (from The Big Sleep, In a Lonely Place, and Dark Passage)
Cary Grant (from Suspicion)
Ingrid Bergman (from Notorious)
Veronica Lake (from The Glass Key)
Bette Davis as Doris Devermont (from Deception)
Lana Turner (from Johnny Eager & The Postman Always Rings Twice)
Edward Arnold (from Johnny Eager)
Kirk Douglas (from I Walk Alone)
Fred MacMurray (from Double Indemnity)
James Cagney (from White Heat)
Joan Crawford (from Humoresque)
Charles Laughton (from The Bribe)
Vincent Price (from The Bribe)
Where can you watch Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid?
You can rent the film from Amazon, Google Play, Apple and YouTube.
