Les cadavres ne portent pas de costard

Titre original : Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

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Steve Martin in Les cadavres ne portent pas de costard (1982)

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Parodie de film noir dans laquelle un détective découvre un sinistre complot. Des personnages de films noirs réels apparaissent au travers de scènes de divers films entrecoupées.Parodie de film noir dans laquelle un détective découvre un sinistre complot. Des personnages de films noirs réels apparaissent au travers de scènes de divers films entrecoupées.Parodie de film noir dans laquelle un détective découvre un sinistre complot. Des personnages de films noirs réels apparaissent au travers de scènes de divers films entrecoupées.

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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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Réalisation
- Carl Reiner
Scénario
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Anecdotes
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.

Gaffes
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.

Citations
[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.

Crédits fous
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.

Connexions
Edited from Soupçons (1941)

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

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Neo-classicism at its best

Dead Men.. maintains a delicate equilibrum between a re-enactment and an original script. On one hand, Carl Reiner offers a comedy which compilates several film noir classics (the strongest influence seems to come from the Maltese Falcon)and makes fun of their profound grim atmosphere, but without ever loosing its self-esteem. On the other hand, it combines at least a dozen scenes from those movies with stand-ins in order to establish a believable (physical) interaction between actors who differ 40 years in age.

Steve Martin would play the same kind of unwilling comedian in Plains, Trains & Automoblies. His voice-over definitely was an inspiration to Leslie Nielsen in the Naked Gun series. Along with Dragnet (1987), both owe, of course, a lot to the police serials from the 50's.

This movie is mostly suited for classic film buffs such as me