Tote tragen keine Karos

Originaltitel: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1982
12
1 Std. 28 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,8/10

24.378

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Steve Martin in Tote tragen keine Karos (1982)

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Parody Whodunnit Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller

Film noir Parodie mit einem Detektiv, der eine unheimliche Handlung aufdeckt. Charaktere aus echten Noirs erscheinen, wenn Szenen aus verschiedenen Filmen zwischengeschnitten werden.Film noir Parodie mit einem Detektiv, der eine unheimliche Handlung aufdeckt. Charaktere aus echten Noirs erscheinen, wenn Szenen aus verschiedenen Filmen zwischengeschnitten werden.Film noir Parodie mit einem Detektiv, der eine unheimliche Handlung aufdeckt. Charaktere aus echten Noirs erscheinen, wenn Szenen aus verschiedenen Filmen zwischengeschnitten werden.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,8/10

24.378

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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Carl Reiner

Field Marshall VonKluck

Barbara Stanwyck

Leona Hastings-Forrest
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Ray Milland

Sam Hastings (in 'Lost Weekend')
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Ava Gardner

Kitty Collins
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Burt Lancaster

Swede Anderson
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Humphrey Bogart

Phillip Marlowe
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Cary Grant

Johnnie Aysgarth
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Ingrid Bergman

F.X. Huberman
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Veronica Lake

Monica Stillpond
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Bette Davis

Doris Davermont
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Lana Turner

Jimmi-Sue Altfeld
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Edward Arnold

Altfeld
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Kirk Douglas

Thug Boss
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Fred MacMurray

Walter Neff
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James Cagney

Captain Cody Jarrett
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Wissenswertes
Final film of legendary costume designer Edith Head. There is a tribute to her and the personnel who worked on films from the Golden Age of Hollywood in the closing credits. Head died on 24 October 1981, a short time after production on the movie had wrapped. Fittingly, the film features many of her earlier designs in cleverly edited clips from old movies. According to Carl Reiner, Head had possession of a hat that Ava Gardner had worn and was protective of the prop. She designed a total of 20 suits to be worn by Steve Martin, in the style of those worn by Cary Grant and James Stewart during their classic-era Hollywood pictures.

Patzer
When Rigby is talking on Juliet's phone to her sister Leona, the handset and coiled cord to the phone are from the 1960's-80's, and not the straight cloth-covered phone cords in use in the 1940's when the story is taking place.

Zitate
[In Rigby's office]
Juliet Forrest: If you need me, just call. You know how to dial, don't you? You just put your finger in the hole and make tiny little circles.

Crazy Credits
After the Cast there comes the dedication: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was Edith Head's final film. To her, and to all the brilliant technical and creative people who worked on the films of the 1940's and 1950's, this motion picture is affectionately dedicated.

Verbindungen
Edited from Verdacht (1941)

Soundtracks
Dead Men's Bolero
Music by Miklós Rózsa
Lyrics by Steve Goodman

Benutzerrezensionen134

Ausgewählte Rezension

7/10

Mostly fun, but loses its way a bit

DMDWP is a black and white film noir comedy that uses footage from real film noirs from the 40s and 50s and inter cuts them with the plot to make it appears that Steve Martin is really talking to/acting with the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, James Cagney etc. The effect is almost seamless but for a movie made in 1982 it's quite impressive.

Martin plays the wonderfully named Rigby Reardon, a typical, gritty private eye who narrates the story with sarcastic observation and gets involved in the usual femme fatal plot and a conspiracy surround the death of a cheese maker. Yes, it's nonsense, and towards the end it becomes a bit hard to follow and the silliness gets out of control. But it's all played straight and for most of the film you could believe you were actually watching a classic film noir.

Steve Martin should have done more of these movies. Rigby Reardon was a great character and could have lasted for a few more movies. The humor is frequently hilarious and he certainly retains a lot of the integrity he has lost in recent years since he went the way of Eddie Murphy and sold himself out to family audiences. Either way, I say you should give this movie a go if you're a fan of his older work.

The DVD is sadly in non-anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen with Dolby 2.0 surround. It still looks quite good for a black and white film and the sound has that limited sound space effect to it to make it fit in with the older footage. A Dolby 5.1 remix would have been totally unnecessary. Some boring extras (trailer, cast bios) are included.