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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Director:Carl Reiner
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'.
Release:
1982 / 05 / 21
Rating:
6.612
Genres & Subgenres:
Comedy
Mystery
Detective
Tags:
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)
Bette Davis
as
(in "Deception") (archive footage)
Lana Turner
as
(in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)
Edward Arnold
as
(in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
Kirk Douglas
as
(in "I Walk Alone") (archive footage)
Fred MacMurray
as
(in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
James Cagney
as
(in "White Heat") (archive footage)
Joan Crawford
as
(in "Humoresque") (archive footage)
Reni Santoni
as
Carlos Rodriguez
Charles Laughton
as
(in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
Vincent Price
as
(in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
George Gaynes
as
Dr. Forrest
Francis X. McCarthy
as
Waiter
Gene LeBell
as
Hood
William Conrad
as
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Charles McGraw
as
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Jeff Corey
as
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Brian Donlevy
as
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Norma Varden
as
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Edmond O'Brien
as
(in "White Heat") (archive footage)