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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1982 · 1h 29m · Comedy, Mystery, Crime

Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.

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Cast

• Steve Martin as Rigby Reardon
• Rachel Ward as Juliet Forrest
• Alan Ladd as (in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)
• Carl Reiner as Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck
• Barbara Stanwyck as (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
• Ray Milland as (in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)
• Ava Gardner as (in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)
• Burt Lancaster as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
• Humphrey Bogart as (in "The Big Sleep" / "In a Lonely Place" / "Dark Passage") (archive footage)
• Cary Grant as (in "Suspicion") (archive footage)
• Ingrid Bergman as (in "Notorious") (archive footage)
• Veronica Lake as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

Details

Director

Carl Reiner

Released

May 21, 1982

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

Comedy, Mystery, Crime

Studio

Universal Pictures and Aspen Film Society

Status

Released

TMDB score

6.6 / 10 from 467 votes