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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
★ 6.6/10•1982•1h 29m•PG•Comedy•Mystery•Crime

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'.

Carl Reiner · Director

George Gipe · Screenplay

Steve Martin · Screenplay

Carl Reiner · Screenplay

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 29m
LanguageEN
Release DateMay 21, 1982
Budget$9,000,000
Revenue$18,196,170

Actors

Steve Martin

Steve Martin

Rigby Reardon

Rachel Ward

Rachel Ward

Juliet Forrest

Alan Ladd

Alan Ladd

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

Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner

Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck

Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck

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

Ray Milland

Ray Milland

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

Ava Gardner

Ava Gardner

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

Burt Lancaster

Burt Lancaster

(in "The Killers") (archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart

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

Cary Grant

Cary Grant

(in "Suspicion") (archive footage)

Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman

(in "Notorious") (archive footage)

Veronica Lake

Veronica Lake

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

Bette Davis

Bette Davis

(in "Deception") (archive footage)

Lana Turner

Lana Turner

(in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)

Edward Arnold

Edward Arnold

(in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)

Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas

(in "I Walk Alone") (archive footage)

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The Big Fix
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The Good German
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A Clockwork Orange
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To Be or Not to Be
Memento
Beverly Hills Cop
Anatomy of a Murder
Beverly Hills Cop II
The Godfather
Some Like It Hot
Natural Born Killers
The Killing
The 39 Steps
Léon: The Professional
Groundhog Day
Mars Attacks!
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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