Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid1982

Stars: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd, Carl Reiner
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Rating: PG
Runtime: 88 minutes

This is one of the best parodies of the '40s hardboiled detective genre, with a very clever conceit: weaving the plot and production design around memorable movie clips (The Killers, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, White Heat, T… more »



Field Marshal Von Kluck:
It is customary in zese situations for ze developer of ze plan to describe it.

Rigby Reardon:
I beg your pardon. But it's also customary for the private eye to tell how he figured it out.

Field Marshal Von Kluck:
No, it is my right! We were able to dupe Dr. Forrest by posing as a humanitary organization, who planned to wipe out hunger, by ageing cheese faster.

Rigby Reardon:
But when your father finally saw what they were doing -

Field Marshal Von Kluck:
- he began to assemble lists of names of our agents -

Rigby Reardon:
- and seemed about to go to the FBI.

Field Marshal Von Kluck:
We were zerfore obliged to kidnap him, drug him ang bring him -

Rigby Reardon:
- here! First faking his death so there'd be no further investigation.

Field Marshal Von Kluck:
But vile testing ze mold on a small island nearby -

Rigby Reardon:
- cruise ship "Immer Essen" passed by. Some of the passengers saw the tiny island dissolve.

Field Marshal Von Kluck:
Zey were zerfore labeled "enemies" because of what zey haf seen. We had Walter Neff cancel all further tours and our -

Rigby Reardon:

Field Marshal Von Kluck:
Schweinehund!

Rigby Reardon:
Jerk!

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