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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was a movie first released in 1982. It was directed by Carl Reiner and featured Steve Martin and Rachel Ward. It is both a pastiche of, and comedic homage to, film noir and the pulp detective movies of the 1940s and 1950s.

The film is a collage effect of old black and white movie clips from films of the 1940s and 1950s, with more recent footage of Martin and other actors (including Carl Reiner, Rachel Ward, and Reni Santoni) similarly shot in black and white. When everything is put together, the original dialogue and acting becomes part of a completely different (and ridiculous) story. This was costume designer Edith Head's last film.

Films used

The films used in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid:

Johnny Eager
(1941)
Suspicion (1941)
This Gun for Hire
(1942)
The Glass Key
(1942)
Keeper of the Flame (1942) (uncredited)
Double Indemnity
(1944)
The Lost Weekend
(1945)
Deception (1946)
Humoresque (1946)
The Big Sleep
(1946)
The Killers
(1946)
Notorious
(1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice
(1946)
Dark Passage (1947)
I Walk Alone
(1947)
Sorry, Wrong Number
(1948)
The Bribe (1949)
White Heat
(1949)
In a Lonely Place
(1950)

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