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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...

Genres

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'.

Details

Budget

$9000000

Revenue

$18196170

Runtime

89 min

Release Date

1982-05-21

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Vote Count

410

Vote Average

6.634

Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.

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

William Conrad

(in "The Killers") (archive footage)

Charles McGraw

(in "The Killers") (archive footage)

Jeff Corey

(in "The Killers") (archive footage)

John Miljan

(in "The Killers") (archive footage)

Brian Donlevy

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

Norma Varden

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

Edmond O'Brien

(in "White Heat") (archive footage)

Britt Nilsson

Puppy Secretary

Jean Beaudine

Duty Secretary

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