Dead men don't wear plaid DVD 1982 Halott férfi nem hord zakót / Directed by Carl Reiner / Starring: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Reni Santoni, Carl Reiner

UPC 5999544253766

REGION 2 PAL DVD 

MADE IN EU

AUDIO:  Hungarian MONO, English MONO

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

Total Runtime: 85 minutes

English Summary:

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a 1982 neo-noir comedy-mystery film directed by Carl Reiner. Starring Steve Martin and Rachel Ward, the film is both a parody of and a homage to film noir and the pulp detective movies of the 1940s. The title refers to Martin's character telling a story about a woman obsessed with plaid in a scene that was ultimately cut from the film.

Juliet Forrest, the daughter of noted scientist and cheesemaker John Hay Forrest, asks private investigator Rigby Reardon to investigate her father's death, which she believes to have been murdered. Searching Dr. Forrest's lab Rigby finds two lists, one titled "Friends of Carlotta" (FOC) and the other "Enemies of Carlotta" (EOC), as well as an affectionately autographed photo of singer Kitty Collins, whose name appears on one of the lists. His search is interrupted by a man posing as an exterminator, who shoots Rigby in the arm and frisks the lists from the seemingly dead investigator.

Rigby manages to find his way to Juliet's house, where she sucks out the bullet, snakebite-style, and points Rigby to the club at which Kitty sings. Juliet also reveals a note to her father from her alcoholic brother-in-law, Sam Hastings, which in turn reveals that Dr. Forrest gave him a dollar bill "for safekeeping". Despite warnings that the mentally disturbed Leona will not be of much use, Rigby calls Leona, who after a rambling discussion, hangs up. On the way out, Juliet asks Rigby to leave further news with her butler or cleaning woman. Mention of the latter causes Rigby to go berserk due to his own father running off with the cleaning woman and his mother dying of a broken heart.

Hungarian Summary:

Steve Martin látható Rigby Reardon, a magánnyomozók ászának szerepében. A tökös, belevaló és bármire képes detektívet felkeresi Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward) egy megoldandó üggyel: apja, az elismert tudós és sajtkészítő feldobta a talpát, méghozzá igen rejtélyes körülmények között. Reardon azon nyomban fejest ugrik az ügybe és szimata a nyomok labirintusán át elvezeti a Carlotta-listákig.
Olyan barátok segítségével, mint Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergmanés és Kirk Douglas, hősünk végül emberére akad. A Halott férfi nem hord zakót egy izgalmas és akciódús krimivígjáték - ahogy a negyvenes években már csak lenni szokott!

Cast / Szereplők:

• Steve Martin as Rigby Reardon
• Rachel Ward as Juliet Forrest
• George Gaynes as Dr. John Hay Forrest
• Reni Santoni as Carlos Rodriguez
• Adrian Ricard as Mildred
• Carl Reiner as Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck
• Francis X. McCarthy as Waiter
• Gene LeBell as Hood

Archive footage

• Alan Ladd as The Exterminator (from This Gun for Hire)
• Barbara Stanwyck as Leona Hastings-Forrest (from Sorry, Wrong Number)
• Ray Milland as Sam Hastings (from The Lost Weekend)
• Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins (from The Killers & The Bribe)
• Burt Lancaster as Swede Anderson (from The Killers)
• Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe (from The Big Sleep, In a Lonely Place, and Dark Passage)
• Cary Grant as the Handsome Guy (from Suspicion)
• Ingrid Bergman as F.X. Huberman (from Notorious)
• Veronica Lake as Monica Stillpond (from The Glass Key)
• Bette Davis as Doris Devermont (from Deception)
• Lana Turner as Jimmi Sue Altfeld (from Johnny Eager & The Postman Always Rings Twice)
• Edward Arnold as Jimmi Sue's father (from Johnny Eager)
• Kirk Douglas as Lead Thug (from I Walk Alone)
• Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff (from Double Indemnity)
• James Cagney as Captain Cody Jarrett (from White Heat)
• Joan Crawford as Margaret (from Humoresque)
• Charles Laughton as The Fat One Who Sweats A Lot (from The Bribe)
• Vincent Price as Rice (from The Bribe)