Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9100 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-05-07
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 261 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Jerk

Carl Reiner (Where's Poppa?) brought comic Steve Martin to the screen in this mostly funny 1979 movie about a relentlessly stupid but innocent man, whom we get to know from childhood (where it never occurred to him that he was white as he was raised by a family of black sharecroppers) to romance (where he doesn't quite know what to do with Bernadette Peters). Martin is game as the moron, and this is the kind of film with funny moments people still talk about. --Tom Keogh

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

This is one of the best parodies of the '40s hardboiled detective genre, with a very clever conceit: weaving the plot and production design around memorable movie clips (The Killers, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, White Heat, This Gun for Hire, Sorry, Wrong Number, Notorious). Steve Martin plays the cool Rigby Reardon, who tries solving an incomprehensible mystery with the assistance of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Burt Lancaster, Fred MacMurray, Ingrid Bergman, and Ray Milland, among others. It's all silly hokum with Rachel Ward as the pretty moll and director-cowriter Carl Reiner as the nefarious villain. Miklos Rozsa takes us back to yesteryear with his lush score, and, fittingly, Edith Head handles the period costumes in her final production. --Bill Desowitz

Synopsis
A trio of classic comedies from funnyman favourite Steve Martin. Includes THE JERK, THE LONELY GUY and DEAD MEN DON’T WEAR PLAID.

Customer Reviews

Satisfied, nay, delighted :)
I bought this and although I live in the far away place we call Australia..... the postman found me.

The Steve Martin DVDs are a delight and although I'm not a "Jerk" or a "Lonely Guy" as I do come from Scotland "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" is a timely fashion hint.

Ogden Nash, the American Humourist Writer, noticed that the Kilt is a form of dress worn by American men in Scotland and Scottish men in America. No mention of corpse nationality.

Well done all who shipped this and all those who sail in her !

Bill McPherson