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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid(1982)

Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...

6.7(450)1h 29m1982-05-21

ComedyMysteryCrime

Overview

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'.

Director:: Carl Reiner
Writers:: George Gipe, Steve Martin, Carl Reiner
Producers:: William E. McEuen, David V. Picker
Cinematographer:: Michael Chapman
Composer:: Miklós Rózsa
Production:: Universal Pictures, Aspen Film Society
Budget:: $9,000,000
Revenue:: $18,196,170
Status:: Released

Trailer

Cast

Steve Martin

Steve Martin

Rigby Reardon

Rachel Ward

Rachel Ward

Juliet Forrest

Alan Ladd

Alan Ladd

(in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)

Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner

Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck

Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck

(in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)

Ray Milland

Ray Milland

(in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)

Ava Gardner

Ava Gardner

(in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)

Burt Lancaster

Burt Lancaster

(in "The Killers") (archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart

(in "The Big Sleep" / "In a Lonely Place" / "Dark Passage") (archive footage)

Cary Grant

Cary Grant

(in "Suspicion") (archive footage)

Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman

(in "Notorious") (archive footage)

Veronica Lake

Veronica Lake

(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)