

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982 · Movie · 1h 29m · PG
ComedyMysteryCrime
"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'.
Ratings
IMDb
6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes
74%
Metacritic
67/100
Key crew
- Carl ReinerDirector
- George GipeScreenplay
- Steve MartinScreenplay
- Carl ReinerScreenplay
- Miklós RózsaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Steve MartinRigby Reardon
- Rachel WardJuliet Forrest
- Alan Ladd(in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)
- Carl ReinerJuliet'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)
Stills
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Themes
father murdernostalgiaparodyfemme fatalelos angeles, californiablack and whiteprivate detectivelistprivate eye1940sold footagenazi underworld























