Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

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'.

Date of release
1982-05-21
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (468)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Comedy, Mystery, Crime
Director
Carl Reiner

Casting

  • 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)

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