{"id":38738,"date":"2025-04-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38738"},"modified":"2025-04-18T22:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T02:24:35","slug":"dead-men-dont-wear-plaid-1982-directed-by-carl-reiner-starring-steve-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38738","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dead Men Don&#8217;t Wear Plaid&#8221; (1982) directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z041425deadmenplaid.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"758\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dead Men Don&#8217;t Wear Plaid <\/strong><\/em>(1982)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Carl Reiner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Carl Reiner, George Gipe, Steve Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Reni Santoni<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Carl Reiner; <\/strong>archival footage: <strong>Alan Ladd<\/strong><strong>, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Veronica Lake, Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Kirk Douglas, Fred MacMurray, James Cagney, Joan Crawford, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, William Conrad, Charles McGraw, Jeff Corey, Brian Donlevy, Norma Varden, Edmond O&#8217;Brien<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Laugh&#8230; or I&#8217;ll blow your lips off!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Juliet Forrest&#8217;s (Ward) scientist father is killed in an auto accident, she hires Private Eye Rigby Reardon (Martin) to investigate.\u00a0 Searching her father&#8217;s lab, Reardon finds two lists of names.\u00a0 A mystery man wings Reardon and steals the lists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More determined than ever to solve the case, Reardon will follow clues that lead him down mean streets, into dark alleys, searching for hidden truths, dealing with hard cases, low-lifes, doublecrossers and beautiful dames.\u00a0 What Reardon discovers is a conspiracy that could be the end of the good-old-USA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Dead Men Don&#8217;t Wear<\/em> Plaid is a film noir parody that seamlessly integrates characters\/scenes from classic noir films into the new story.<\/p>\n<p>Director Carl Reiner says that <em>Dead Men Don&#8217;t Wear Plaid<\/em> is the favorite film that he&#8217;s directed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film is Costume Designer Edith Head&#8217;s last feature film and is dedicated to her. It was also the final film of film composer Mikl\u00f3s R\u00f3zsa who re-scored music from films he had worked on in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The one city that the Nazi plot destroys is Terre Haute, Indiana.\u00a0 That is where I was born and lived through eighth grade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Dead Men Don&#8217;t Wear Plaid <\/strong><\/em>(1982) rates 4 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z041425deadmenplaid2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead Men Don&#8217;t Wear Plaid (1982) Director:\u00a0 Carl Reiner Screenplay: Carl Reiner, George Gipe, Steve Martin Stars: Steve Martin, Rachel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38764,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738\/revisions\/38764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}