Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

05/21/1982 (US) • 1h 29m

Comedy, Mystery, Crime

Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...

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'.

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)


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$9,000,000.00

Revenue

$18,196,170.00

Keywords

father murder

nostalgia

parody

femme fatale

los angeles, california

black and white

private detective

list

private eye

1940s

old footage

nazi underworld

old hollywood

man disguised as woman

gumshoe

repurposed footage

inner monologue

noir spoof

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