Other Titles • Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid • Dead Men Wear No Plaid (1982) • Tote tragen keine Karos (1982)
Quotes from Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
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[In Rigby's office] Juliet Forrest: If you need me, just call. You know how to dial, don't you? You just put your finger in the hole and make tiny little circles.
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Rigby Reardon: I hadn't seen a body put together like that since I solved the case of the Murdered Girl with the Big Tits.
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Rigby Reardon: Carlotta was the kind of town where they spell trouble T-R-U-B-I-L, and if you try to correct them, they kill you.
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Field Marshall Von Kluck: It is customary in these situations for the developer of the plan to explain it. Rigby Reardon: It is also customary for the DETECTIVE to explain how HE figured it out!
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[At Juliet's house after Rigby has been shot the first time] Butler: Yes? Rigby Reardon: I'd like to see Ms. Forrest. Butler: Who shall I say is calling? Rigby Reardon: Rigby Reardon, tell her I've been shot. Butler: Very good, sir. May I tell her by whom? Rigby Reardon: No, I don't know myself. Butler: Are you alright? You look as though you're going to faint. Rigby Reardon: Faint? Never... Catch me. [Rigby Reardon falls on the floor, fainting] Butler: Sorry, I'm a Butler, not a catcher.
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Field Marshal Von Kluck: It is customary in zese situations for ze developer of ze plan to describe it. Rigby Reardon: I beg your pardon. But it's also customary for the private eye to tell how he figured it out. Field Marshal Von Kluck: No, it is my right! We were able to dupe Dr. Forrest by posing as a humanitary organization, who planned to wipe out hunger, by ageing cheese faster. Rigby Reardon: But when your father finally saw what they were doing - Field Marshal Von Kluck: - he began to assemble lists of names of our agents - Rigby Reardon: - and seemed about to go to the FBI. Field Marshal Von Kluck: We were zerfore obliged to kidnap him, drug him ang bring him - Rigby Reardon: - here! First faking his death so there'd be no further investigation. Field Marshal Von Kluck: But vile testing ze mold on a small island nearby - Rigby Reardon: - cruise ship "Immer Essen" passed by. Some of the passengers saw the tiny island dissolve. Field Marshal Von Kluck: Zey were zerfore labeled "enemies" because of what zey haf seen. We had Walter Neff cancel all further tours and our - Rigby Reardon, Field Marshal Von Kluck: - friends systematically began to eliminate everyone who was on that cruise ship. Field Marshal Von Kluck: Schweinehund! Rigby Reardon: Jerk!
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Rigby Reardon: I guess to be a good exterminator, you have to enjoy killing things. Ladd, Alan: Yeah.
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Rigby Reardon: If you want me to investigate your father's death I get 10 dollars a day - plus expenses. Juliet Forrest: Would 200 dollars be enough in advance, Mr Reardon? Rigby Reardon: 200! I'd shoot my grandmother for it! Juliet Forrest: That wouldn't be neccessary. Rigby Reardon: Never can tell. In my last case I had to throw my own brother out of an airplane.
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Charles Laughton: We know who you are, Mr Rigby. Rigby Reardon: So? I'm interested, who am I? Charles Laughton: You could be a guy that collects 10,000 dollars, just to leave this stinking town. Rigby Reardon: I could, could I? Charles Laughton: And you know who I could be? Rigby Reardon: Hunchback of Notre-Dame? Charles Laughton: I could be the guy who hands you them 10,000 dollars. 10,000 dollars, me to you, just like that. Rigby Reardon: Sorry, but my price for leaving stinking towns is 11,500 and a kiss on the lips from Carmen Miranda.
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Juliet Forrest: I could be your Heinamackafrau. Field Marshal von Kluck: Yes, you could, you could be zat. Rigby Reardon: What's that? What is it? Juliet Forrest: Tell him what it means, Heinamackafrau. Field Marshal von Kluck: Reinemachefrau! It means she could be my cleaning woman.
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Rigby Reardon (voice off): All of a sudden I had to remember some words that Marlowe had told me over fifteen years ago: Dead men don't wear plaid. Hm. Dead men don't wear plaid. I still don't know what it means.
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Philipp Marlowe: You got a map of south america? Rigby Reardon: Yeah. Philipp Marlowe: Check out Peru. Rigby Reardon: Got it! Philipp Marlowe: There's a little town on the coast called Paite. Tell me where it is. Rigby Reardon: It's next to a tiny island called - son of a gun! Carlotta! It's not a woman's name, it's a place.
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Rigby Reardon: The people who brought you The Jerk, try and make it up to you.
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Rigby Reardon: [voice-over] There was one thing I liked about Monica... the words "I can't" weren't in her vocabulary. Rigby Reardon: Monica, I need you to do something for me. Monica (Veronica Lake): I can't. Rigby Reardon: I guess she'd learned them since the last time I saw her.
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Cary Grant: You don't smoke, do you? Rigby Reardon: No, I have tuberculosis. Cary Grant: Oh, thank heaven for that.
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