DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID (1982)
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...
Comedy, Mystery, Crime
May 21, 1982
English
1h 29m
United States
Universal Pictures
$9,000,000
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'.
Cast & Characters
Steve Martin
Rigby Reardon
Rachel Ward
Juliet Forrest
Alan Ladd
(in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)
Carl Reiner
Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck
Barbara Stanwyck
(in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
Ray Milland
(in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)
Ava Gardner
(in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)
Burt Lancaster
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
(in "The Big Sleep" / "In a Lonely Place" / "Dark Passage") (archive footage)
Cary Grant
(in "Suspicion") (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman
(in "Notorious") (archive footage)
Veronica Lake
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Bette Davis
(in "Deception") (archive footage)
Lana Turner
(in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)
Edward Arnold
(in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
Kirk Douglas
(in "I Walk Alone") (archive footage)
Fred MacMurray
(in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
James Cagney
(in "White Heat") (archive footage)
Joan Crawford
(in "Humoresque") (archive footage)
Reni Santoni
Carlos Rodriguez
Charles Laughton
(in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
Vincent Price
(in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
George Gaynes
Dr. Forrest
Francis X. McCarthy
Waiter
Gene LeBell
Hood
Crew
Carl Reiner
Director
George Gipe
Screenplay
Carl Reiner
Screenplay
Steve Martin
Screenplay
Miklós Rózsa
Original Music Composer
Michael Chapman
Director of Photography
David V. Picker
Producer
William E. McEuen
Producer