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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Directed by Carl Reiner
“Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...”
Comedy, Mystery, Crime · 1h 29m
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'.
Cast
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)
Crew
- Director
- Carl Reiner
- Screenplay
- George Gipe, Carl Reiner, Steve Martin
- Director of Photography
- Michael Chapman
- Original Music Composer
- Miklós Rózsa
- Editor
- Bud Molin
- Producer
- David V. Picker, William E. McEuen
Details
- Release date
- 1982-05-21
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Comedy, Mystery, Crime
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures, Aspen Film Society
- Budget
- $9,000,000
- Box office
- $18,196,170