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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

“Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...”

19821h 29mComedy · Mystery · Crime

Released

May 21, 1982

6.6

TMDB Score

66% match · 469 votes

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About the Movie

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid poster

ComedyMysteryCrime

Synopsis

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'.

DirectorCarl Reiner

Released: May 21, 1982
Runtime: 1h 29m
Status: Released
Original language: English
Budget: $9.0M
Box office: $18.2M
Studios: Universal Pictures, Aspen Film Society

Top Billed 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)

Bette Davis

(in "Deception") (archive footage)

Lana Turner

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

Edward Arnold

(in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)

Kirk Douglas

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

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