30 years, and I still don't know to this day.
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"Mongo only pawn in game of life."---Mongo (RIP), Blazing Saddles
People in coffins generally wear nicer suits, not tacky plaid ones.
Rebuild the WTC exactly as before and keep old movies accurate!
It actually explains in the credits. If you saw it on tv they put a commercial over the credits though where you could not have seen it. It says the following:
DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID WAS EDITH HEAD'S FINAL FILM.......
Sorry, it doesn't explain in the credits. I didn't realize they meant she is credited in this actual film, I thought they meant this film was titled out of tribute to her in that the last obscure movie that she worked on was titled, "Dead men don't wear plaid"
I think my blood sugar must be low. Pass me the junior mints
Apparently it is something that Marlowe says, that Rigby doesn't understand either, so it is probably supposed to sound profound while being nonsensical. It is probably just a general mock noir-esque kind of title.
I think a better title would have been "The Big Cheese", since so many film noir titles had "The Big..." in it. "The Big Sleep", "The Big Clock", "...Night", "...Heat", "...Combo", "...Knife" and I think a few others.
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exactly....terranovasucks got it right (this time)
shareThe Edith Head credit is not a joke. Edith Head designed the original costumes for this film (as well as the costumes for several of the archive clips seen in the film). She died in 1981 before the film's release so this was indeed her final film and the credit was a tribute to her and her remarkable career.
The title itself is simply a spoof of the types of titles seen in several B-movies and pulp novels of the 40s and 50s
I think the main inspiration is the type of title used in Erle Stanley Gardner's "Cool and Lam" detective stories. They are set in the noir world, which Gardner was at home in, writing for the pulps at the same time as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. That does not mean others could not use that type as well, of course.
Look at the listing of book titles in the wiki entry for Cool and Lam, and see what you think.