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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1982

Carl Reiner

Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner, Reni Santoni ...

6.0

1,293

Comedy. Film noir. Mystery Martin plays the role of Rigby Reardon, an inept private eye who comes to the aid of a wealthy and beautiful heiress. The film is cleverly interspliced with clips from classic detective films of the past.

	Author	Review
United States	TV Guide	"A consistently hilarious parody of the noir and detective genres, expertly blending classic archival footage with the action."	POS
United States	Entertainment Weekly	The vintage footage is seamlessly integrated into the action, and the end result is both very funny and very true to the conventions of the detective movie. Read full review	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"A genial, gently mocking, brilliantly executed spoof that may offend the purists but which should delight the buffs"	POS
United States	Gary Arnold The Washington Post	"A curiously overextended spoof of the cliche's of Hollywood's hard-boiled mystery melodramas of the 1940s."	NEU
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	Carl Reiner comedy whose technical execution (Michael Chapman's cinematography is masterful) is better than its script.	POS

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