Movie
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
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
- Release date
- 1982-05-21
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Mystery, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Pictures, Aspen Film Society
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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)
Crew
- Carl Reiner - Director
- George Gipe - Screenplay
- Carl Reiner - Screenplay
- Steve Martin - Screenplay
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