Talk:Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

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According to the IMDB trivia entry, "The car accident at the beginning of the movie (the fake killing of the scientist) is taken from Keeper of the Flame (1942). The movie however is not credited" --Shantavira 12:53, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

A partial listing of the actors in the clips used is:
 * Edward Arnold, Lana Turner, and Charles Laughton in Johnny Eager (1941)
 * Cary Grant in Suspicion (1941)
 * Alan Ladd in This Gun for Hire (1942)
 * Veronica Lake in The Glass Key (1942)
 * Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity (1944)
 * The Lost Weekend (1945)
 * Bette Davis in Deception (1946)
 * Joan Crawford in Humoresque (1946)
 * Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946)
 * The Killers (1946)
 * Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (1946)
 * Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
 * Humphrey Bogart in Dark Passage (1947)
 * Kirk Douglas in I Walk Alone (1947)
 * Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
 * Vincent Price in The Bribe (1949)
 * James Cagney in White Heat (1949)
 * Humphrey Bogart in In a Lonely Place (1950)

Terre Haute
I recall (not sure from where) that the film refers to Terre Haute because Martin had made a joke about the city in his stand-up act, upsetting the city's residents. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:08, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * OK, here's the background, I didn't have it quite right. Is it worth mentioning in this article, or too trivial? -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:11, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

The year of the most reasoned rat
Folks, we all understand that 'dead men dont wear plate' was something Marlowe might have said in the early 1980s, when 'plate' was a common slang expression for 'plate armour'; while Reardon might have heard that 'dead men dont wear plaid' ( not wiling to believe in something like a perfect surveillance state, homeland security et al ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A0A:A549:5915:0:D964:10EF:9D0D:B1F2 (talk) 23:33, 13 November 2023 (UTC)