Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

6.7/10 • 89 min • Comedy Mystery Crime

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'.

Cast

Steve Martin

Rachel Ward

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)

Ingrid Bergman

(in "Notorious") (archive footage)

Veronica Lake

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

Bette Davis

(in "Deception") (archive footage)

Lana Turner

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

Edward Arnold

(in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)

Kirk Douglas

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

Fred MacMurray

(in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)

James Cagney

(in "White Heat") (archive footage)

Joan Crawford

(in "Humoresque") (archive footage)

Reni Santoni

Carlos Rodriguez

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