Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

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"Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off..."

Movie · 1982 · 1h 29m · Released · Rated PG · Comedy, Mystery, Crime

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'.

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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)

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