Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
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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'.
- Carl ReinerDirector, Screenplay
- George GipeScreenplay
- Steve MartinScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$9,000,000
Revenue
$18,196,170
Keywords
- father murder
- nostalgia
- parody
- femme fatale
- los angeles, california
- black and white
- private detective
- list
- private eye
- 1940s
- old footage
- nazi underworld
- old hollywood
- man disguised as woman
- gumshoe
- repurposed footage
- inner monologue
- noir spoof
Top Billed Cast
Steve Martin
Rigby Reardon
Rachel Ward
Juliet Forrest
Alan Ladd
(in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)
Carl Reiner
Juliet'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)
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