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Writers:
Carl Reiner (written by) &
George Gipe (written by) ...
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Release Date:
21 May 1982 (USA) more
Tagline:
Laugh... or I'll blow your lips off!
Plot:
Film noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot. Characters from real noirs appear as scenes from various films are intercut. full summary | add synopsis
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An Open Letter to Steve Martin
(From Get The Big Picture. 6 February 2009, 10:36 AM, PST)
Another Awful 'Pink Panther 2' Trailer
(From Get The Big Picture. 25 December 2008, 9:52 PM, PST)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Steve Martin | ... | Rigby Reardon |
 | Rachel Ward | ... | Juliet Forrest |
 | Alan Ladd | ... | (in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage) |
 | Carl Reiner | ... | Field Marshall VonKluck |
 | Barbara Stanwyck | ... | (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage) |
 | Ray Milland | ... | (in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage) |
 | Ava Gardner | ... | (in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage) |
 | Burt Lancaster | ... | (in "The Killers") (archive footage) |
 | Humphrey Bogart | ... | (in "The Big Sleep" / "In a Lonely Place" / "Dark Passage") (archive footage) |
 | Cary Grant | ... | (in "Suspicion") (archive footage) |
 | Ingrid Bergman | ... | (in "Notorious") (archive footage) |
 | Veronica Lake | ... | (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage) |
 | Bette Davis | ... | (in "Deception") (archive footage) |
 | Lana Turner | ... | (in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage) |
 | Edward Arnold | ... | (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage) |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Dead Men Wear No Plaid
Cliente muerto no paga (Mexico) (cable TV title) (Spain) (Venezuela) [es]
Bogart Jr. (Denmark) [da]
Cliente Morto Não Paga (Brazil) [pt]
Döda män klär inte i rutigt (Sweden) [sv]
Il mistero del cadavere scomparso (Italy) [it]
Kuollut mies ei palttoota kaipaa (Finland) [fi]
Les cadavres ne portent pas de costard (France) [fr]
Mrtvaci ne nose karirano (Serbia) [sr]
Tote tragen keine Karos (West Germany) [de]
Umarli nie owijaja sie pledem (Poland) [pl]
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88 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:12 | Portugal:M/12 | Brazil:Livre | USA:PG (#26624) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | West Germany:12 | Spain:7 | Singapore:PG
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Initially, Steve Martin's character was written to tell off Humphrey Bogart's "mentor" character as an old has-been. The scene in which Martin did this was restored for network-TV showings. more
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Anachronisms: At one point Reardon references the Kinsey Report; the first volume was published in 1948, but the movie is set in 1946. more
Quotes:
Rigby Reardon: [drugged] Let's go out dancing! You put on your black dress, and I'll go shave my tongue. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Jeopardy!: (#22.9)" (2005) more
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Dead Men's Bolero more
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An incredible achievement. My mind boggles at the amount of thought, time and effort that must have gone into this superb film. The plot is brilliantly and hilariously convoluted, with screen legends from the 1940s making appearances in amazingly edited scenes, and Steve Martin's trademark absurd humour is present almost all the way. Steve and Rachel Ward have remarkable chemistry, and each of their performances are highly impressive. If it weren't for the bundles of humour employed, one would almost think at times that this actually is a film noir from the 1940s, so legitimate and believable is the 'feel' or the atmosphere of the film.
I cannot believe that some people who commented on this film have said that the plot is merely an excuse to hang old movie clips onto, and not much use at all; and the person who claims that Steve Martin overacts in this movie mustn't realise that this is regarded as one of Steve's more restrained, deadpan comedic performances (the 'cleaning woman!' device turns out to be an important part of the plot and also seems to be a way of using the strangling scene that is taken from the Bette Davis movie - it is also a chance for Steve to get in a very tiny element of his 'wild and crazy guy' persona, which he substituted with a more suitable [for parody] 'straight' performance).
A rousing and side-splittingly funny success - they don't make 'em like this anymore!