Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

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'.

Release Date: 1982-05-21

Runtime: 89 minutes

Director: Carl Reiner

Budget: $9,000,000 USD

Revenue: $18,196,170 USD

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Top 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)