Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid · 1982

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

«Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...»

Carl Reiner · 89 min · United States of America

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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Budget

$9,000,000

Worldwide revenue

$18,196,170

Profit

$9,196,170

Production companies

Universal Pictures, Aspen Film Society

Locations

Setting

Los Ángeles

Locations: Wikidata · Data: TMDB / OMDb

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)