Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...

Movie · Comedy, Mystery, Crime · 1h 29m · Rated 6.6/10 on TMDB · Released May 21, 1982

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'.

Directed by Carl Reiner

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)

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