Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
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'.
- Released
- 1982-05-21
- Genres
- Comedy, Mystery, Crime
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Carl Reiner, George Gipe, Steve Martin, Carl Reiner
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 from 472 votes
Cast
- 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)
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