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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

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'.

1982 |1h 29m |  Comedy, Mystery, Crime

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Cast

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Steve Martin

Rigby Reardon

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Rachel Ward

Juliet Forrest

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Alan Ladd

(in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)

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Carl Reiner

Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck

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Barbara Stanwyck

(in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)

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Ray Milland

(in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)

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Ava Gardner

(in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)

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Burt Lancaster

(in "The Killers") (archive footage)

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Humphrey Bogart

(in "The Big Sleep" / "In a Lonely Place" / "Dark Passage") (archive footage)

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Cary Grant

(in "Suspicion") (archive footage)

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Ingrid Bergman

(in "Notorious") (archive footage)

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Veronica Lake

(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

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Bette Davis

(in "Deception") (archive footage)

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Lana Turner

(in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)

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Edward Arnold

(in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)

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Kirk Douglas

(in "I Walk Alone") (archive footage)

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Fred MacMurray

(in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)

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James Cagney

(in "White Heat") (archive footage)

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Joan Crawford

(in "Humoresque") (archive footage)

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Reni Santoni

Carlos Rodriguez

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Charles Laughton

(in "The Bribe") (archive footage)

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Vincent Price

(in "The Bribe") (archive footage)

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George Gaynes

Dr. Forrest

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Francis X. McCarthy

Waiter

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Gene LeBell

Hood

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William Conrad

(in "The Killers") (archive footage)

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Charles McGraw

(in "The Killers") (archive footage)

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Jeff Corey

(in "The Killers") (archive footage)

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John Miljan

(in "The Killers") (archive footage)

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Brian Donlevy

(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

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Norma Varden

(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

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Edmond O'Brien

(in "White Heat") (archive footage)

More Details

Status

Released

Language

English

Budget

$9,000,000.00

Revenue

$18,196,170.00