dead men don not wear plaid be base on an interesting concept . you have scene involve steve martin a a private eye inter cut with scene from classic like double indemnity and the big sleep and the killer and load of other 40 classic with people like bogie and ava gardner and cary grant and ray milland and burt lancaster ( still play the swede ) and a bunch of other star . the photography be faithful to the era it try to re create and steve martin have a 40 look about him . for me and the off put thing be the toilet humour in several scene . they could have remain sober and create a good movie and instead there be completely immature scene which mar the sober atmosphere that the camera work create . have say that and it still interest to see bygone legend in a completely new movie . by the way and all the scene be from the movie . there be lose footage or anything that be edit out of the original movie . interesting just for the visual look .