with Carl Reiner & Steve Martin

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) (co-written with Carl Reiner & Steve Martin)

by Carl Reiner, George Gipe, Steve Martin

The instance Dead men don't wear plaid, an Aspen Film Society/William E. McEuen/David V. Picker production ; a Carl Reiner film ; written by Carl Reiner, George Gipe, Steve Martin ; produced by David V. Picker and William E. McEuen ; directed by Carl Reiner represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.

Lawrence Gipe

LG: I arrived in LA originally because my father was writing movies; Lawrence Gipe wrote a few films with Steve Martin including 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid' -- a parody of film noir that spliced the comedian into old classics like 'Double Indemnity' to make a new comedic narrative.

Tim Lucas

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982),” writes Tim Lucas for the New Beverly.

Carl Reiner’s

Perhaps the strangest, and definitely the funniest, among those was Carl Reiner’s hard-boiled satire “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” (1982), in which Steve Martin stomps around the place with toilet paper stuck to Steve Martin's shoe.

the black-and-white comedy Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid ()

Edith Head's last film project was the black-and-white comedy Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), starring Steve Martin and Carl Reiner, a job Head was chosen for because of Edith Head's expertise on 1940s fashions.

Margaret Rozsa

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" Margaret Rozsa.

x 36' JS

LG: I arrived in LA originally because my father was writing movies; 24' x 36' JS wrote a few films with Steve Martin including 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid' -- a parody of film noir that spliced the comedian into old classics like 'Double Indemnity' to make a new comedic narrative.