What a great film this is, so funnyand tailor made for fans of classic noir, as Steve Martin so obviously is. If you havnt seen it, you really must. Hard boiled lols aplenty. Any other fans here?
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
What a great film this is, so funny
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oh yeah... it's a movie that got me hooked on noir...
Actually just watched it for the first time this year and I loved it! Rachel Ward was so great-who says the last sexy women died out in 1959?
Seen it a couple of years ago and liked it very much. Funny and a technical "tour de force" also. Love Steve Martin; he deserves to be taken "seriously". Gonna watch it again soon (but after I watch all the films in the two new box sets).
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the fun part is going back and watching it now and identifying all the movie clips. Not too hard for a noir fan...
I love this movie to death. We watch it every once in awhile and it never fails to amuse us. Carl Reiner's is a genius!
I love when Steve Martin is dressed like Phyliss from Double Indemnity, the scene with Bette Davis and the one with Ingrid Bergman.
The Germermanns!! LMAO Ethel Merman
"What do you know about a plane with Germermans on it? Germerm... Germans. Germermans. There's a plane with mermans on it. The plane's in town. Ethel Merman came in on it. Wanna go see Ethel Merman with me? I'll buy two tickets. Let me get on my pajamas, I'll be ready to go."
Cary Grant: You don't smoke, do you?
Rigby Reardon: No, I have tuberculosis.
Cary Grant: Oh, thank heaven for that.
This movie is just absolutely brilliant and really well done.
A couple of other great spoofs are The Cheap Dectective and Murder By Death.
Oh Carl Reiner's Fatal Instinct is really quite funny as well, I have noticed over the years that people not fimilar with noirs miss some of the humor in it however. Not a problem for any of us though.
I have to agree with Christina that DMDWP is a howl, and I also enjoy the hell out of Fatal Instinct. I don't remember ever seeing The Cheap Detective. It's been several decades since I last saw Murder by Death, but I vaguely remember being somewhat amused by it.
I hate it.
Hate, hate, hate.
Sorry.
Richard
"Passion rules the arrow that flies."
Bob Dylan, 1986.
HJ I am pretty sure you'd like The Cheap Dectective, it spoofs The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca. Dom Deluise as Peppy Demacus, spoofing Peter Lorre as Joel Cario, is a howl and John Houseman as Jasper Blubber, ala' Sydney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman, is also a hoot and a half. Madeline Kahn plays the Mary Astor role..and well, the movie is just well worth finding.
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That's ok Richard, we likes ya anyway.
The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) is a subtle parody too.
The Coen brothers deviously jab film noir, flying saucers, and mid-century cultural conventions and paranoia in The Man Who Wasn’t There, while paying homage to film noir. The film displays beautiful John Alton style photography. The deadpan voice-over-narration is great. For noir-heads who take film noir too seriously, or not too seriously, it’s a fun film.
Hey Rick, glad to hear you mention this movie. I am a huge Coen Brother's fan and somehow missed this movie. I just ordered it a couple of days ago. I am really excited to see it.
Not a spoof, but yet fun, in a black humor way, is their first film Blood Simple, I've heard it called a grisly comic noir and I agree.
Couldn't warm up to The Man Who Wasn't There. Maybe I was expecting a great noir... and it was a strange dark comedy. Maybe I should revisit it. I like Blood Simple and Fargo which are darkly comic noirs... but not as out-in-left-field like The Man Who Wasn't There.
I revisited Murder By Death and The Cheap Detective last year. Murder By Death cracks me up because the cast was miserable shooting it -- they were all convinced it was going to be a failure. Yet it's still funny... and was a huge hit at the time.
during the Charlie-Chan like explanation of the murders.Peter Falk as Sam Diamond: "Shut up, all of ya's. Nobody move!"
"What is it?"
"I have to go to the can again. I don't wanna miss nothin.'"
"Now, if one of you gentlemen would be so kind as to give my lady friend here a glass of cheap white wine, I'm going down the hall to find the can. I talk so much sometimes, I forget to go."
Murder By Death and The Cheap Detective are... well... cheap but funny comedies.
My husband and I both have about worn all three of these DVDs out watching them, Dead Men Don't Wear Plain and these two Neil Simon flicks. They never fail to make us laugh.
Alec Guiness was a scream as the blind bulter and Nancy Walker as the deaf maid, priceless!
The whole cast was top drawer.
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