Java is a slang term for coffee, because the island of Java in Indonesia has been a major producer of coffee since the 17th century. "Mickey Finn" is slang for knockout drops. "Slipping someone a mickey" means to put knockout drops in their drink. The name seems to come from a Chicago saloon manager who would slip chloral hydrate into some patrons' drinks and then rob them. The recurring gag "Cleaning Woman" is a parody and homage to an old vaudeville routine, "Slowly I Turned." It's been performed innumerable times by different comics with slight variations but always the same essential story. Here are the Three Stooges performing their version in the short film, _Gents Without Cents._ th-cam.com/video/MYP1OBZfFK0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=nT1WSQPGUcSol36f The Wikipedia entry for _Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid_ has a list of all the old actors and the films that were used. They are all among the greatest of film-noir movies.
This is actually one of my favorite movies! I mean, Steve Martin acting along side Humphrey Bogart? What more could you ask for? Fun fact, it was the last movie for two legendary old time Hollywood artists - music composer Miklos Rozsa and costume deisgner Edith Head. Rozsa was an academy award nominated composer who worked on movies like Ben-Hur and Hitchcock's Spellbound among others. Edith Head was maybe the most celebrated costume designer in Hollywood who won a record eight Academy Awards. She passed away shortly after finishing her work on Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. (If you've seen The Incredibles, the character of Edna "E" Mode, who designed the superhero costumes, was based on Edith Head with Edith's signature hair and glasses.)
...and several months ago I stumbled on this AMAZING tribute to director Carl Reiner and analysis of Miklos Rozsa's score for "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid": th-cam.com/video/Mray_1NG4Fw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=anCMlazkR9YTBEaa
You can see Edith Head for real in Columbo , Requiem for a falling star, 1973, Season 2, Episode 5. She has won most Oscars , 35 nomination , 8 wins , not bad for person having no design education.
To me, Rozsa was the perfect composer for films noir. His scores for "Double Indemnity", "The Killers", "Brute Force", "The Naked City" and others helped to establish the noir style.
"You know how to dial, don't you? ..." is a play on Lauren Bacall's line in To Have and Have Not: "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
LOVE the scene where Michael Caine is cracking Steve Martin across the shins with a cane, and Martin can't react because he's pretending to have paralyzed legs.
Oh it's been so long since I saw that one - so much fun! Remade in recent years as The Hustle with Rebel Wilson & Anne Hathaway, but I haven't seen it yet.
"What kind of a sale?" I have loved this movie since I was a kid. One of the many reasons I love this channel is that Dawn regularly throws in amazing films that no one else is reacting to.
I never realized till watching someone react to this, how much of the humor is like Naked Gun and Airplane. Very clever movie and a lot of people in 1982 recognized all the old-movie scenes they strung together so well. LOVED this reaction. Thanks for posting.
Guy who shot Stevev is ALan Ladd from "This Gun for Hire." [1942] The lady on the telephone was Barbara Stanwyck from the 1948 movie "Sorry Wrong Number." his movie specifically uses classic movie inserts into the story, it's hilarious. If you don't know classic movies they might go right over your head. In order of appearance: 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) [She was Ilsa in Casablanca-you didn't recognize her] 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)
Suffocated by a pillow: a medical examiner can see imprints on the inner lips from the victim's teeth because of how hard the murder has to press the pillow on him. I think I remember that from Quincey. (American TV show, 70's.
Double Indemnity with Fred MacMurry is a Billy Wilder classic. You've already seen some of his films. You need to see all of them, the dramas and the comedies, they're all brilliant.
Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock are my two very favourite classic filmmakers. Both so brilliant. And I'm pretty sure Wilder could do anything. He was also screenwriter for most (or maybe all?!) of his films.
Love your laugh Dawn Marie. This was the last movie for Edith Head who is a famous costume designer for many movies. She won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design. She is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential costume designers in film history. Carl Reiner. (the butler/Nazi), was the director and one of the writers on Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. He was great friends with Mel Brooks. Another black & white movie I would suggest for you is, "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?".
For another funny private eye film you need to see "The Cheap Detective" starring Peter Falk doing his best Bogart imitation. One of the clips is from a classic film noir "Double Indemnity" which is a must-see. It stars Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck.
@@Cheepchipsable I had a VW bug in 1978 with an 8-track cassette player in it. The only 8-track tape I had was his album, "Let's Get Small." It played over and over and over ... that tape and that car became one.
The only bad thing about this movie for people watching nowadays is all the references to old movies that many of you haven't seen before. Still - Martin can make reading a menu funny.
Well at least she’s been inspired to track down and watch all the classic films clipped in this film. Granted most probably won’t do that. But that’s why Dawn is built different.
@@KrazyKat007I was only 12 when I saw this in the theater, and I hadn't seen most of the old films, but I was aware of people like Mae West and Humphrey Bogart and so I did go search out some of these afterward. I loved this film!
It's a good for those who want to know the difference between a casual movie watcher and a major film fan. Be brave and drop down that rabbit hole. We'd be pleased to have you join us. 😎👍
To make it easy for people to track down these movies: This Gun for Hire (1942) The Glass Key (1942) Double Indemnity (1944) The Lost Weekend (1945) The Killers (1946) Deception (1946) Humoresque (1946) The Big Sleep (1946) Dark Passage (1947) White Heat (1949) Johnny Eager (1941) Keeper of the Flame (1943) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) The Bribe (1949) Suspicion (1941) Notorious (1946) I Walk Alone (1947) Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) In a Lonely Place (1950)
Dawn: Alan Ladd shot Steve Martin in the beginning, not too long ago you saw him in the western movie "Shane." You saw Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart, she was Ilsa.
I first saw this movie when I was a teenager and loved it. Then in my freshman year in college I took an English class where we watched a bunch of old "film noir" movies and we saw several films that are used in "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid". I was so happy!
Edith Head is one of the most famous and well known costume designers to have come out of Hollywood. The list of costumes she designed for the most amazing movies and celebrities is impressive!
5:00 - PENNY DROPS! Yes, this is a masterful mashup of film noir movies. Contributors to movies of this genre were asked to collaborate on Steve Martin's vision. Music by composer, Miklos Rozsa. Costumes by designer Edith Head. This was the last film for both.
I’m so glad you watched this,Dawn. It is one of my favorite movies, too. As you watch some of the source movies, you’ll find that some of the dialogue by Martin and Ward are lines inspired by actual lines from some of those source movies. And when he makes his famous java, I just sit here with the giggles until he’s done.
When this came out in 1982, I was working at a movie theater. I watched this quite a few times and it's still entertaining to this day. Very underrated movie. 😂
"You know how to dial, don't you? You just put your finger in the hole and make tiny little circles." This is a play on the classic line from To Have and Have Not, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall: "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow."
WOW! I can't believe someone has finally reacted to this. This is one of my all time favourite movies! It seems most people don't even know it exists. Which is a shame as DMDWP is easily one of Steve Martin's best! The use of movie clips in the film is GENIUS! My girlfriend and I watch this film at least twice a year! Glad you enjoyed it! I watched it as a kid and the moment SM shaved his tongue, I knew I would love this movie forever! 😛💖
This is one of my favourite films, Dawn, it was an earlier one from Steve Martin, but in my opinion it's one of his best, what a clever idea using clips from old 'Film Noir' films to make a new one.
I’ve been waiting for this. It’s my favorite Steve Martin movie. So many great lines. “ I haven’t seen a body put together like that since I solved the case of the murdered girl with the big t_ts.”
Dawn Marie, Java was a popular brand of coffee in America back in the 1940's when this movie is supposed to take place. You are right, Dawn Marie, Steve Martin spliced together real movies from that era to make it look like he was interacting with the movie characters. This is why he filmed the movie in Black and White like the movies made in that era. Steve Martin also dyed his hair black for the part because his hair turned white at a young age.
Yaaaay!!! I hope you will also try some other Steve Martin comedies: All of Me, The Man with Two Brains, LA Story, and Bringing Down the House are all great! Maybe even The Lonely Guy, it's just been too many years since I've seen it. I'd have to do a rewatch -- will let you know lol
Wow I haven't seen this one since it came out in the theaters! I can't imagine how much work went into putting it all together, Steve Martin was like a bona fide rock star back in the late 70s, early 80s. I saw him in concert in '79 during his 'Wild and Crazy Guy' tour. Always loved his brand of humor.
The man lying down is Burt Lancaster (very famous leading man) in his film debut, 'The Killers' (1946). The film co-stars Ava Gardner (very famous leading lady). It's a crime film noir based on a story by Earnest Hemingway (very famous American writer). You will love it. (best movie ever)
Ingrid Bergman was also in Casablanca. Vincent Price was in a lot of Horror type movies and was also the voice (in a certain song) of "Darkness falls across the land The midnight hour is close at hand Creatures crawl in search of blood To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood And whosoever shall be found Without the soul for getting down Must stand and face the Hounds of Hell And rot inside a corpse’s shell..." Unfortunately it was the only movie that tried this, but I loved it for it's experimental brilliance in trying that.
I’ve been suggesting this to anyone smart enough to appreciate it. It’s such a genius way to put a movie together. Another movie Steve Martin deserved an award for was All Of Me where he plays 2 people in one body.
My "go to " movies on a cold, rainy Sunday is this one and " My Favourite Year" , starring Peter O'Toole , loosely based on Mel Brooks as a young writer having to look after an older Errol Flynn for a 50's live to air TV show, 'The Show of Shows" starring Sid Caesar. Made around the same time (1981/82 ) Definitely worth a reaction . ( and enjoying yours😉)
Not a laughing out loud movie? Well, you gave it a couple of good ole' wheez laughs instead. ^^ Glad you liked it! I remember seeing this when I was too young to figure out it had clips for older movies, I just thought all of it were that old. Then seeing it again and figuring it out, it gave the movie a whole new level! Thanks for uploading! Greetings from Sweden
Ok, IIRC Edith Head was considered one of the best, if not the best costume designer in films. She was the direct inspiration for the woman in The Incredibles that makes their costumes. This was her last film.
@5:02..."is this taken from another movie?" LOL That is the genius of this film! Splicing scenes from old serious movies into a comedy. Like a cinematic jigsaw puzzle. 🙂
Java : coffee. Phone lady; Barbara Stanwyck. Man laying down: Burt Lancaster. Lady w the horizontal stripes and Blk dress: Ingrid Bergman. Short blonde: Veronica Lake. Blonde is the white dress: Lana Turner. Man in jail: James Cagney “Sweaty man:” Charles Laughton. Butler and Nazi towards the end: Carl Reiner
Some great old films for you here. Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry Wrong Number and Double Indemnity. Ingrid Bergman who you saw in Casablanca, is with Cary Grant in Hitchcock's Notorious. Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep.
There was a whole run of Holsten Pils beer adverts based on this movie's style, starring Griff Rhys Jones. Edith Head was a famous costume designer in the Golden years of Hollywood. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was her last movie. Edna Mole the costume designer from The Incredibles looks just like Edith Head
So many good Steve Martin movies, many of them directed by Carl Reiner ("I'm not a butler", father of director Rob Reiner, and old comedy duo partner of Mel Brooks). When it comes to the Pink Panther movies though, go for the originals, starring Peter Sellers. Hearing the name "Carlotta", I expected clips from Vertigo, but they would have had to de-colourize it (and there could be copyright problems). They needed the lists of names which corresponded to the old clips.
Not only is this movie great, but all of the old films they used clips from are great too. Film noir, hardboiled detectives, treacherous dames, tough bad guys, dark shadows and alleyways, and uncertain motives. You need to react to all of the movies listed in the end credits.
The sexy Femme Fatale was played by Rachel Ward who had quite a career in the 1980s. She reminds me of another favorite film of mine: Burt Reynolds' SHARKY'S MACHINE (1981).
Steve Martin made most of his early films with Universal. If you have ever watched a pre-1950 (or there about) movie made by Paramount but released by Universal on media i.e. DVD, VHS or Blu-ray. In 1950 (or there about), Paramount sold their entire catalog of movies to Universal for media release. That is why Martin and Riener were able to use clips from movies that weren't made by Universal.
This movie is a favorite of mine. Steve Martin makes another comedy masterpiece! My brother in law went to high school with Steve and said he wasn't the class clown, but Steve's best friend was! Imagine Steve's high school buddy ended managing the power tool department at a Home Depot or something like that.
Hello, for not being a laugh-out-loud movie, you sure did a lot of laughing out loud.🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am glad you really enjoyed this movie, TBH you helped a lot of viewers have a better day with your laughter.
When this was made it was hard to get good prints of the classic films used in movie. Remember some of the family and studios raised objections that had the movie pulled in many places fearing lawsuits. Critics hated this movie but it is fun and well done. Even then a lot of people who were fans of Steve Martin had no idea who these old stars were so that did not help either.
One of our favorite movies: my mother and saw it in theaters when it first came out, and since we both knew most of the movies and all of the actors, we were hard-pressed not to jump up and down cheering every five minutes (it's okay, we did it at home when we got the movie on VHS). Oh, so much trivia, so, so much! I'll just do two: Alan Ladd, our first cameo, played a detective in a couple of noirs. He was most famous as "Shane", the central character in the Western of the same name. He was (probably) quite short in real life, and in two movies played opposite Veronica Lake, the "I can't" blonde. She was also quite tiny, a Brooklyn girl, who became famous for wearing her hair provocatively over one eye. During WWII, she was convinced to change this style because women would imitate the style, and as they were working in factories in place of the men, accidents would happen (this is the legend, anyway). She was a very good actress but very seldom had a chance to prove it (but watch her in "So Proudly We Hail" to see what we and she missed out on). Difficult to work with and emotionally fragile, she lost control of her career and fell into alcoholism and poverty. I have to stop, I'll take up the entire comment section telling stories of these actors...!
You might want to watch "What's Up Tiger Lily" - a 1966 movue which based on the Japanese Spy flick, but the dialogue is wittily over-dubbed in English
Enthusiastic seconding for *What's Up, Tiger Lily?* - the direct lineal ancestor of TV features like *Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection* and *Mystery Science Theater 3000.* I very much doubt you'll have cause to regret it. 😅
@Dawn Marie, I saw this movie years ago. I laughed during it. But, I laughed a lot more watching it with you. The genre is called 'Film Noir'. Two of the ones that will want to see sooner are "Double Indemnity", and "White Heat". It is so very impressive that you've seen so many of the B&W classics already. The more that you see, the more that you see even more of them referenced in more modern films.
One of my favorite lesser known movies! As someone who spends a lot of time in Terre Haute, I find it particularly funny. But then, I am also aware of the history between Steve Martin and the city of Terre Haute. Their long love-hate relationship makes the city's inclusion in this movie hilarious! The writing and directing for this movie is pure genius. The ability to seamlessly include all of these classic movie scenes into this story is amazing. And "java" is just another word for coffee.
"Bowfinger" is probably my favorite Steve Martin comedy, but NOBODY reacts to it! It has the dream team with Eddie Murphy from "Beverly hills cop". It's an underrated gem and worth considering! 🤠😺
yeah, I've never met Eddie Murphy, yet I have TREMENDOUS respect for him. when very late in life Red Foxx ran into incredible financial troubles, Eddie Murphy paid off all his bills. Eddie Murphy did the same thing for Flip Wilson and Richard Pryor AND NEVER TOLD ANYONE.
Best movie ever!!! I knew Dawn would love this. So glad to watch you watch this. Dawn Marie, probably the only reactor to be able to appreciate this. Thanks so much. A thousand likes.
In slang, a Mickey Finn (or simply a Mickey) is a drink laced with an incapacitating agent, particularly chloral hydrate, given to someone without their knowledge with the intent to incapacitate them or "knock them out"; hence the colloquial name knockout drops
Without watching those movies first its hard to get this movie in full. Double Indemnity is probably my Fav. movie all time, it was so funny seeing Steve in that blonde wig when I was about 16 at the movie theatre.
Java is slang for coffee. A micky refers to a Micky Finn. The story goes that a bartender named Micky Finn would slip choral hydrate into the drink and they'd pass out for a few hours. This was used to get rid of rowdy people, or to rob them. It was so well known that they'd mention it in old Bugs Bunny cartoons. The Marlowe they refer to from time to time was Philip Marlowe, a fictional detective written by Raymond Chandler. If Sam Spade was the beta version of the hard boiled detective, Marlowe was the release version. He wrote "The big Sleep" which was one of the movies Bogart was in from here. You can tell if someone has been smothered, or strangled, by looking at the eyes. The blood vessels burst in a way that is called a petechial hemorrhage. It's one of the first methods of "hidden" murder identified by modern (1940's or so, as I recall) autopsies.
My favorite movie, "Transylvania Twist" also takes scenes from other movies and has the actors play against them, as if they are in the same room. It's a bit like "Airplane!" meets Mel Brooks meets Marx Brothers type humor.
Similar movies are Kung Pow, and What’s Up Tigerlily , both comedies with use of other films with different dialogue. Love Rachel Ward, her voice and acting are perfect.
yeah, there are A LOT of good lines in this movie! my favorite include 1) "That's as far as I go on the first date." and 2) "You must have crawled here on your hands and knees."
Java is another word for coffee used back in the day by hard boiled detectives hot on the trail of bad guys everywhere. Maybe. To make a movie like this took an incredible amount of effort. Recreating sets and wardrobe, getting the rights from the copyright owner and getting the right dialogue to move the story forward must have been a real challenge.
Another parody of crime melodrama and Film Noir is Neil Simon's MURDER BY DEATH (1976), with a stellar cast of comedic actors. Instead of 'Marlowe', Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade plays a key role. Also, you'll really love the THIN MAN series of comedic Film Noir of Hammett's characters, Nick and Nora Charles, played by William Powell and Myrna Loy (and Asta the dog) - start with THE THIN MAN (1934), then continue with AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936), ANOTHER THIN MAN (1939), SHADOW OF THE THIN MAN (1941), THE THIN MAN GOES HOME (1945), and SONG OF THE THIN MAN (1947).
I've seen a handful of the classic movies that are used in 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid' and it makes those scenes even funnier when you know where they came from. (I've seen This Gun For Hire, Double Indemnity, Notorious and maybe a few others.)
Toothpaste jizz - LMFAO - Lordy. I saw this on my birthday when it came out and I loved it - I was a huge Steve Martin fan and this was in so many ways a departure from his early 'wild-and-crazy-guy' stand-up persona - this is arguably his most ambitious effort onscreen and was a follow-up reteaming with Carl Reiner who directed (and co-stars as the Nazi butler) - this was a valentine to '30s & '40s noir (which they were big fans of) and it was one of a kind upon its release in this mash-up with classic screen actors of the era. Clever conceit grandly executed. Tons of fun indeed - I'm glad you dug it Dawn (you're such an easy laugh :D ). Java was slang back in the day for coffee - 'dried up' means to sober up re: drunkards on a binge. Edith Head - to whom the film was dedicated (as it was her last professional gig as a consultant for the film's look) was an esteemed (and Oscar-winning) costume designer of the Golden Age of Hollywood and her styles were impeccable. Yes you s/seek the films that were spliced in here and yes you've seen Ingrid Bergman - she's Bogart's love in CASABLANCA.
Java is a slang term for coffee, because the island of Java in Indonesia has been a major producer of coffee since the 17th century.
"Mickey Finn" is slang for knockout drops. "Slipping someone a mickey" means to put knockout drops in their drink. The name seems to come from a Chicago saloon manager who would slip chloral hydrate into some patrons' drinks and then rob them.
The recurring gag "Cleaning Woman" is a parody and homage to an old vaudeville routine, "Slowly I Turned." It's been performed innumerable times by different comics with slight variations but always the same essential story.
Here are the Three Stooges performing their version in the short film, _Gents Without Cents._
th-cam.com/video/MYP1OBZfFK0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=nT1WSQPGUcSol36f
The Wikipedia entry for _Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid_ has a list of all the old actors and the films that were used. They are all among the greatest of film-noir movies.
Isn't trivia fun?
Niagra Falls!!! Slowly I turned! Step by step! Inch by inch!
"Joe," is an Army slang for coffee. It's coffee so bad you drink because it's warm.
Do you what a "Ranger Bar," is? You take the coffee packet and creamer packet from the MRE, rip off the tops and shake the contents into your mouth.
...and if you've ever wondered why the logo of Java programming language is a coffee cup...
(Not that it explains why they decided to call it Java.)
Thank you, Dawn Marie. You are one of the few people who actually appreciate this film.
You are right, only 6.8 on IMDB is a bad joke. Imho it's rather an 8.6!
This is actually one of my favorite movies! I mean, Steve Martin acting along side Humphrey Bogart? What more could you ask for?
Fun fact, it was the last movie for two legendary old time Hollywood artists - music composer Miklos Rozsa and costume deisgner Edith Head. Rozsa was an academy award nominated composer who worked on movies like Ben-Hur and Hitchcock's Spellbound among others. Edith Head was maybe the most celebrated costume designer in Hollywood who won a record eight Academy Awards. She passed away shortly after finishing her work on Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. (If you've seen The Incredibles, the character of Edna "E" Mode, who designed the superhero costumes, was based on Edith Head with Edith's signature hair and glasses.)
...and several months ago I stumbled on this AMAZING tribute to director Carl Reiner and analysis of Miklos Rozsa's score for "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid": th-cam.com/video/Mray_1NG4Fw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=anCMlazkR9YTBEaa
You can see Edith Head for real in Columbo , Requiem for a falling star, 1973, Season 2, Episode 5.
She has won most Oscars , 35 nomination , 8 wins , not bad for person having no design education.
To me, Rozsa was the perfect composer for films noir. His scores for "Double Indemnity", "The Killers", "Brute Force", "The Naked City" and others helped to establish the noir style.
"You know how to dial, don't you? ..." is a play on Lauren Bacall's line in To Have and Have Not: "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
Arcsinic and Old Lace....a true classic
Oh, seconded, definitely!
100%
I had tears running down my face from laughing so hard at Dawn laughing so hard she was wheezing😂
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin and Michael Caine, clever and twisty comedy.
LOVE the scene where Michael Caine is cracking Steve Martin across the shins with a cane, and Martin can't react because he's pretending to have paralyzed legs.
@@corbinhbucknerjr558 Dr. Shofhausen even sprints in from the other room. I love that movie. Also "Not Mother?"
Dawn, you would LOVE this film, from 1987.
Another forgotten gem...Steve as "Ruprect"
Oh it's been so long since I saw that one - so much fun! Remade in recent years as The Hustle with Rebel Wilson & Anne Hathaway, but I haven't seen it yet.
"What kind of a sale?"
I have loved this movie since I was a kid. One of the many reasons I love this channel is that Dawn regularly throws in amazing films that no one else is reacting to.
I never realized till watching someone react to this, how much of the humor is like Naked Gun and Airplane. Very clever movie and a lot of people in 1982 recognized all the old-movie scenes they strung together so well. LOVED this reaction. Thanks for posting.
That's the gag of the film, it was old clips intertwined with Steve - a bit like Forrest Gump now that I think about it.
Guy who shot Stevev is ALan Ladd from "This Gun for Hire." [1942] The lady on the telephone was Barbara Stanwyck from the 1948 movie "Sorry Wrong Number." his movie specifically uses classic movie inserts into the story, it's hilarious. If you don't know classic movies they might go right over your head. In order of appearance: 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) [She was Ilsa in Casablanca-you didn't recognize her]
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)
"No, no, Ma. Listen to me!"
Carl Reiner made some of the funniest comedies. The entire string of "pajamas" dialogue by Rene Santoni slays me every time.
I first saw this movie about 30 years ago and it's pretty rare for me to hear "pyjamas" in my head any other way than how Carlos says it!
Suffocated by a pillow: a medical examiner can see imprints on the inner lips from the victim's teeth because of how hard the murder has to press the pillow on him. I think I remember that from Quincey. (American TV show, 70's.
I think being suffocated also breaks small blood vessels in somewhere like nose or lungs or something.
So glad you liked this one! It's my favorite Steve Martin movie ever, if you like him, try a movie called All Of Me. It's great!
“If you don’t give Big Ed some air…” 😂
aaah.... actually.... my favorite Steve Martin movie is "My Blue Heaven"! Martin steals the movie (and everything else)!
"Top of the world, Ma!" - James Cagney as Cody Jarrett in "White Heat".
James Cagney.
One of Stanley Kubrick’s favorite actors
Dawn needs to watch a good James Cagney movie.
@@waterbeauty85yeah, how about "Yankee Doodle Dandy"!
Double Indemnity with Fred MacMurry is a Billy Wilder classic. You've already seen some of his films. You need to see all of them, the dramas and the comedies, they're all brilliant.
Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock are my two very favourite classic filmmakers. Both so brilliant. And I'm pretty sure Wilder could do anything. He was also screenwriter for most (or maybe all?!) of his films.
Love your laugh Dawn Marie. This was the last movie for Edith Head who is a famous costume designer for many movies. She won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design. She is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential costume designers in film history. Carl Reiner. (the butler/Nazi), was the director and one of the writers on Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. He was great friends with Mel Brooks. Another black & white movie I would suggest for you is, "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?".
For another funny private eye film you need to see "The Cheap Detective" starring Peter Falk doing his best Bogart imitation.
One of the clips is from a classic film noir "Double Indemnity" which is a must-see. It stars Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck.
Cheap Detective is genius! Falke was comedic gold
Woody Allen did a movie called "Play It Again, Sam."(1972) where he converses with an imaginary Bogart(Jerry Lacey) about life and mostly about women.
CLEANING WOMAN!!!!😂 I love this film...very funny 😂
Inch by inch... step by step...
Steve Martin was an expert sleight of hand street magician for many years. To do that coin flip trick like him will take a LOT of practice.
He was a kind of prop comic and stand up comedian also.
@@Cheepchipsable I had a VW bug in 1978 with an 8-track cassette player in it. The only 8-track tape I had was his album, "Let's Get Small." It played over and over and over ... that tape and that car became one.
The only bad thing about this movie for people watching nowadays is all the references to old movies that many of you haven't seen before. Still - Martin can make reading a menu funny.
Well at least she’s been inspired to track down and watch all the classic films clipped in this film.
Granted most probably won’t do that.
But that’s why Dawn is built different.
@@KrazyKat007I was only 12 when I saw this in the theater, and I hadn't seen most of the old films, but I was aware of people like Mae West and Humphrey Bogart and so I did go search out some of these afterward. I loved this film!
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To make it easy for people to track down these movies:
This Gun for Hire (1942)
The Glass Key (1942)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Killers (1946)
Deception (1946)
Humoresque (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Dark Passage (1947)
White Heat (1949)
Johnny Eager (1941)
Keeper of the Flame (1943)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Bribe (1949)
Suspicion (1941)
Notorious (1946)
I Walk Alone (1947)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Dawn: Alan Ladd shot Steve Martin in the beginning, not too long ago you saw him in the western movie "Shane." You saw Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart, she was Ilsa.
This has always been one of my favorite Steve Martin movies, I don't know why more people haven't heard of it
I first saw this movie when I was a teenager and loved it. Then in my freshman year in college I took an English class where we watched a bunch of old "film noir" movies and we saw several films that are used in "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid". I was so happy!
Edith Head is one of the most famous and well known costume designers to have come out of Hollywood. The list of costumes she designed for the most amazing movies and celebrities is impressive!
5:00 - PENNY DROPS! Yes, this is a masterful mashup of film noir movies. Contributors to movies of this genre were asked to collaborate on Steve Martin's vision. Music by composer, Miklos Rozsa. Costumes by designer Edith Head. This was the last film for both.
I’m so glad you watched this,Dawn. It is one of my favorite movies, too.
As you watch some of the source movies, you’ll find that some of the dialogue by Martin and Ward are lines inspired by actual lines from some of those source movies.
And when he makes his famous java, I just sit here with the giggles until he’s done.
When this came out in 1982, I was working at a movie theater. I watched this quite a few times and it's still entertaining to this day. Very underrated movie. 😂
"You know how to dial, don't you? You just put your finger in the hole and make tiny little circles."
This is a play on the classic line from To Have and Have Not, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall:
"You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow."
WOW! I can't believe someone has finally reacted to this. This is one of my all time favourite movies! It seems most people don't even know it exists. Which is a shame as DMDWP is easily one of Steve Martin's best! The use of movie clips in the film is GENIUS! My girlfriend and I watch this film at least twice a year! Glad you enjoyed it! I watched it as a kid and the moment SM shaved his tongue, I knew I would love this movie forever! 😛💖
This is one of my favourite films, Dawn, it was an earlier one from Steve Martin, but in my opinion it's one of his best, what a clever idea using clips from old 'Film Noir' films to make a new one.
I’ve been waiting for this. It’s my favorite Steve Martin movie. So many great lines.
“ I haven’t seen a body put together like that since I solved the case of the murdered girl with the big t_ts.”
Dawn Marie, Java was a popular brand of coffee in America back in the 1940's when this movie is supposed to take place.
You are right, Dawn Marie, Steve Martin spliced together real movies from that era to make it look like he was interacting with the movie characters.
This is why he filmed the movie in Black and White like the movies made in that era.
Steve Martin also dyed his hair black for the part because his hair turned white at a young age.
Yaaaay!!! I hope you will also try some other Steve Martin comedies: All of Me, The Man with Two Brains, LA Story, and Bringing Down the House are all great! Maybe even The Lonely Guy, it's just been too many years since I've seen it. I'd have to do a rewatch -- will let you know lol
Ooooh yea! Lonely Guy is terriffic
Don't forget Bowfinger. 🤣🤣
God, I love The Man With Two Brains - it's so incredibly, wonderfully stupid. Not every joke lands, but there are SO many funny scenes!
@shawnkelly1531 I programmed my Alexa to recite "Pointy Birds" when I ask her to read my favorite poem lol
@@SueSnellLives anointy, nointy 🤣🤣🤣
The film was dedicated to Edith Head, who won a record eight Academy awards for costume design.
Wow I haven't seen this one since it came out in the theaters! I can't imagine how much work went into putting it all together, Steve Martin was like a bona fide rock star back in the late 70s, early 80s. I saw him in concert in '79 during his 'Wild and Crazy Guy' tour. Always loved his brand of humor.
The man lying down is Burt Lancaster (very famous leading man) in his film debut, 'The Killers' (1946). The film co-stars Ava Gardner (very famous leading lady). It's a crime film noir based on a story by Earnest Hemingway (very famous American writer). You will love it. (best movie ever)
The Great Race from 1965 and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World from 1963. And play.
A Great Movie 👏👏👏✌️☺️
Ingrid Bergman was also in Casablanca. Vincent Price was in a lot of Horror type movies and was also the voice (in a certain song) of
"Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the Hounds of Hell
And rot inside a corpse’s shell..."
Unfortunately it was the only movie that tried this, but I loved it for it's experimental brilliance in trying that.
I’ve been suggesting this to anyone smart enough to appreciate it. It’s such a genius way to put a movie together. Another movie Steve Martin deserved an award for was All Of Me where he plays 2 people in one body.
25:59: "Have I seen her (Ingrid Bergman) before?"
26:23: "I thought there was a scene from Casablanca in there".
My "go to " movies on a cold, rainy Sunday is this one and " My Favourite Year" , starring Peter O'Toole , loosely based on Mel Brooks as a young writer having to look after an older Errol Flynn for a 50's live to air TV show, 'The Show of Shows" starring Sid Caesar.
Made around the same time (1981/82 )
Definitely worth a reaction . ( and enjoying yours😉)
One of my favorite B&W movies, "Double Indemnity", is featured in this mash-up.
"Top Hat", 1935 musical comedy with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It was in black and white.
Not a laughing out loud movie? Well, you gave it a couple of good ole' wheez laughs instead. ^^ Glad you liked it! I remember seeing this when I was too young to figure out it had clips for older movies, I just thought all of it were that old. Then seeing it again and figuring it out, it gave the movie a whole new level!
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Ok, IIRC Edith Head was considered one of the best, if not the best costume designer in films.
She was the direct inspiration for the woman in The Incredibles that makes their costumes.
This was her last film.
@5:02..."is this taken from another movie?" LOL That is the genius of this film! Splicing scenes from old serious movies into a comedy. Like a cinematic jigsaw puzzle. 🙂
Java : coffee. Phone lady; Barbara Stanwyck. Man laying down: Burt Lancaster. Lady w the horizontal stripes and Blk dress: Ingrid Bergman. Short blonde: Veronica Lake. Blonde is the white dress: Lana Turner. Man in jail: James Cagney “Sweaty man:” Charles Laughton. Butler and Nazi towards the end: Carl Reiner
Some great old films for you here. Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry Wrong Number and Double Indemnity. Ingrid Bergman who you saw in Casablanca, is with Cary Grant in Hitchcock's Notorious. Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep.
One of my favourite films. So many great sequences. A comedy gem.
Thank you Dawn Marie. your reactions are priceless and you bring more happiness to YTubers all over the world. Java is a slang term for strong coffee.
Dawn gets the giggles so much
Very underrated today…maybe even when it came out. I saw it as a kid, appreciated it more as an adult.
One of my most favorite movies of all time love your reaction
There was a whole run of Holsten Pils beer adverts based on this movie's style, starring Griff Rhys Jones. Edith Head was a famous costume designer in the Golden years of Hollywood. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was her last movie. Edna Mole the costume designer from The Incredibles looks just like Edith Head
So many good Steve Martin movies, many of them directed by Carl Reiner ("I'm not a butler", father of director Rob Reiner, and old comedy duo partner of Mel Brooks). When it comes to the Pink Panther movies though, go for the originals, starring Peter Sellers. Hearing the name "Carlotta", I expected clips from Vertigo, but they would have had to de-colourize it (and there could be copyright problems). They needed the lists of names which corresponded to the old clips.
Not only is this movie great, but all of the old films they used clips from are great too. Film noir, hardboiled detectives, treacherous dames, tough bad guys, dark shadows and alleyways, and uncertain motives. You need to react to all of the movies listed in the end credits.
In a Flintstones episode, his name was Cary Granite.
Lol, don't forget Anne Margarock, and Rock Quarry.
The sexy Femme Fatale was played by Rachel Ward who had quite a career in the 1980s. She reminds me of another favorite film of mine: Burt Reynolds' SHARKY'S MACHINE (1981).
5:12 CLUNK! That's the sound of the penny dropping. 😄 More Steve Martin - 'The Man With Two Brains' is bonkers fun.
Steve Martin made most of his early films with Universal. If you have ever watched a pre-1950 (or there about) movie made by Paramount but released by Universal on media i.e. DVD, VHS or Blu-ray. In 1950 (or there about), Paramount sold their entire catalog of movies to Universal for media release. That is why Martin and Riener were able to use clips from movies that weren't made by Universal.
This movie is a favorite of mine. Steve Martin makes another comedy masterpiece! My brother in law went to high school with Steve and said he wasn't the class clown, but Steve's best friend was! Imagine Steve's high school buddy ended managing the power tool department at a Home Depot or something like that.
Hello, for not being a laugh-out-loud movie, you sure did a lot of laughing out loud.🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am glad you really enjoyed this movie, TBH you helped a lot of viewers have a better day with your laughter.
When this was made it was hard to get good prints of the classic films used in movie. Remember some of the family and studios raised objections that had the movie pulled in many places fearing lawsuits. Critics hated this movie but it is fun and well done. Even then a lot of people who were fans of Steve Martin had no idea who these old stars were so that did not help either.
No one has ever reacted to this very clever and funny Steve Martin film! One I've seen a dozen times and it still makes me laugh.
If you like this movie look up the 1983 Wood Allen film 'Zelig'. A very weird little film.
Yeah they used lots of footage from old movies. Makes it even cooler when you recognize some
One of our favorite movies: my mother and saw it in theaters when it first came out, and since we both knew most of the movies and all of the actors, we were hard-pressed not to jump up and down cheering every five minutes (it's okay, we did it at home when we got the movie on VHS).
Oh, so much trivia, so, so much! I'll just do two:
Alan Ladd, our first cameo, played a detective in a couple of noirs. He was most famous as "Shane", the central character in the Western of the same name. He was (probably) quite short in real life, and in two movies played opposite Veronica Lake, the "I can't" blonde. She was also quite tiny, a Brooklyn girl, who became famous for wearing her hair provocatively over one eye. During WWII, she was convinced to change this style because women would imitate the style, and as they were working in factories in place of the men, accidents would happen (this is the legend, anyway). She was a very good actress but very seldom had a chance to prove it (but watch her in "So Proudly We Hail" to see what we and she missed out on). Difficult to work with and emotionally fragile, she lost control of her career and fell into alcoholism and poverty.
I have to stop, I'll take up the entire comment section telling stories of these actors...!
12:27 I believe this is "Key Largo." 1948.
You might want to watch "What's Up Tiger Lily" - a 1966 movue which based on the Japanese Spy flick, but the dialogue is wittily over-dubbed in English
Enthusiastic seconding for *What's Up, Tiger Lily?* - the direct lineal ancestor of TV features like *Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection* and *Mystery Science Theater 3000.* I very much doubt you'll have cause to regret it. 😅
@Dawn Marie,
I saw this movie years ago. I laughed during it. But, I laughed a lot more watching it with you.
The genre is called 'Film Noir'. Two of the ones that will want to see sooner are "Double Indemnity", and "White Heat". It is so very impressive that you've seen so many of the B&W classics already. The more that you see, the more that you see even more of them referenced in more modern films.
One of my favorite lesser known movies! As someone who spends a lot of time in Terre Haute, I find it particularly funny. But then, I am also aware of the history between Steve Martin and the city of Terre Haute. Their long love-hate relationship makes the city's inclusion in this movie hilarious! The writing and directing for this movie is pure genius. The ability to seamlessly include all of these classic movie scenes into this story is amazing. And "java" is just another word for coffee.
"Bowfinger" is probably my favorite Steve Martin comedy, but NOBODY reacts to it! It has the dream team with Eddie Murphy from "Beverly hills cop". It's an underrated gem and worth considering! 🤠😺
Eddie Murphy is utterly genius in it.
yeah, I've never met Eddie Murphy, yet I have TREMENDOUS respect for him. when very late in life Red Foxx ran into incredible financial troubles, Eddie Murphy paid off all his bills. Eddie Murphy did the same thing for Flip Wilson and Richard Pryor AND NEVER TOLD ANYONE.
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"Doin' More Things" was the name of my band in college!
Steve Martin has a lot of tricks like the coin flipping over the back of the hand.
Best movie ever!!! I knew Dawn would love this. So glad to watch you watch this. Dawn Marie, probably the only reactor to be able to appreciate this. Thanks so much. A thousand likes.
I saw this movie 40 years ago and the "pyYAMas" line has ALWAYS stuck with me🤣🤣🤣
In slang, a Mickey Finn (or simply a Mickey) is a drink laced with an incapacitating agent, particularly chloral hydrate, given to someone without their knowledge with the intent to incapacitate them or "knock them out"; hence the colloquial name knockout drops
for some more Steve Martin Goodness check out ' Simple Twist of Fate', 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and 'Leap of Faith'
Without watching those movies first its hard to get this movie in full. Double Indemnity is probably my Fav. movie all time, it was so funny seeing Steve in that blonde wig when I was about 16 at the movie theatre.
This will never be a highly viewed video, but it got you a subscription. The Jerk to Leap of Faith run of Steve Martin is untouchable.
Lava is slang for coffee, because most coffee came from the country Java at one time.
"Java" is strong Coffee, but not as strong as an Expresso.
A Great Steve Martin "Physical Comedy" called "All of me".
Java is slang for coffee.
A micky refers to a Micky Finn. The story goes that a bartender named Micky Finn would slip choral hydrate into the drink and they'd pass out for a few hours. This was used to get rid of rowdy people, or to rob them. It was so well known that they'd mention it in old Bugs Bunny cartoons.
The Marlowe they refer to from time to time was Philip Marlowe, a fictional detective written by Raymond Chandler. If Sam Spade was the beta version of the hard boiled detective, Marlowe was the release version. He wrote "The big Sleep" which was one of the movies Bogart was in from here.
You can tell if someone has been smothered, or strangled, by looking at the eyes. The blood vessels burst in a way that is called a petechial hemorrhage. It's one of the first methods of "hidden" murder identified by modern (1940's or so, as I recall) autopsies.
My favorite movie, "Transylvania Twist" also takes scenes from other movies and has the actors play against them, as if they are in the same room. It's a bit like "Airplane!" meets Mel Brooks meets Marx Brothers type humor.
Excellent! No Gamurmans in it, BUT "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" with Steve Martin and Michael Caine, is a must!
Similar movies are Kung Pow, and What’s Up Tigerlily , both comedies with use of other films with different dialogue.
Love Rachel Ward, her voice and acting are perfect.
"The words, 'I can't' were not in her vocabulary"..."I guess she had added them since I last saw her" Lmao
yeah, there are A LOT of good lines in this movie! my favorite include 1) "That's as far as I go on the first date." and 2) "You must have crawled here on your hands and knees."
Java is another word for coffee used back in the day by hard boiled detectives hot on the trail of bad guys everywhere. Maybe.
To make a movie like this took an incredible amount of effort. Recreating sets and wardrobe, getting the rights from the copyright owner and getting the right dialogue to move the story forward must have been a real challenge.
25:26 Rachel Ward played Julliet-Youhza! What man wouldn't have seen that movie?
14:15 Lana Turner in "The Postman Always Rings Twice." 1946. I think.
This is actually one of my favorite movies and at the same time a movie that is bittersweet.
What a star-studded cast!
"I will love you forever. That is not a threat."
Now it feels like a threat!
A Mickey is a Mickey Finn, a drug given to someone without their knowledge to knock them out. Often chloral hyrdrate.
Ingrid Bergman was in Casablanca
Another parody of crime melodrama and Film Noir is Neil Simon's MURDER BY DEATH (1976), with a stellar cast of comedic actors. Instead of 'Marlowe', Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade plays a key role. Also, you'll really love the THIN MAN series of comedic Film Noir of Hammett's characters, Nick and Nora Charles, played by William Powell and Myrna Loy (and Asta the dog) - start with THE THIN MAN (1934), then continue with AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936), ANOTHER THIN MAN (1939), SHADOW OF THE THIN MAN (1941), THE THIN MAN GOES HOME (1945), and SONG OF THE THIN MAN (1947).
Everyone likes Dawn too! (and if they don't BOY, ARE THEY WRONG!!!)
I've seen a handful of the classic movies that are used in 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid' and it makes those scenes even funnier when you know where they came from. (I've seen This Gun For Hire, Double Indemnity, Notorious and maybe a few others.)
A brilliant comedic homage to classic film noir 🎉🎉🎉🎉
This film used clips from 19 different vintage movies.
Toothpaste jizz - LMFAO - Lordy. I saw this on my birthday when it came out and I loved it - I was a huge Steve Martin fan and this was in so many ways a departure from his early 'wild-and-crazy-guy' stand-up persona - this is arguably his most ambitious effort onscreen and was a follow-up reteaming with Carl Reiner who directed (and co-stars as the Nazi butler) - this was a valentine to '30s & '40s noir (which they were big fans of) and it was one of a kind upon its release in this mash-up with classic screen actors of the era. Clever conceit grandly executed. Tons of fun indeed - I'm glad you dug it Dawn (you're such an easy laugh :D ). Java was slang back in the day for coffee - 'dried up' means to sober up re: drunkards on a binge. Edith Head - to whom the film was dedicated (as it was her last professional gig as a consultant for the film's look) was an esteemed (and Oscar-winning) costume designer of the Golden Age of Hollywood and her styles were impeccable. Yes you s/seek the films that were spliced in here and yes you've seen Ingrid Bergman - she's Bogart's love in CASABLANCA.
PS: I was always hoping for a sequel w/Steve w/classic comedians like the Marx Brothers :D