Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

May 21, 1982

1h 29m

★ 6.6

Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...

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'.

Genres

Comedy

Mystery

Crime

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Aspen Film Society

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid Trailers

Cast

Rigby Reardon

Steve Martin

Juliet Forrest

Rachel Ward

(in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)

Alan Ladd

Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck

Carl Reiner

(in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck

(in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)

Ray Milland

(in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)

Ava Gardner

(in "The Killers") (archive footage)

Burt Lancaster

(in "The Big Sleep" / "In a Lonely Place" / "Dark Passage") (archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart

(in "Suspicion") (archive footage)

Cary Grant

(in "Notorious") (archive footage)

Ingrid Bergman

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

Veronica Lake

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