Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Comedy Mystery Crime

Storyline: 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'.

Release Date: 1982-05-21

Original Language: en

Original Title: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Status: Released

Runtime: 89 minutes

TagLine: Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...

Rating: (391 votes)

Budget: $9,000,000

Revenue: $18,196,170

Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Aspen Film Society

Spoken Languages: English

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Cast Members

Steve Martin

Steve Martin (Rigby Reardon)

70.21%

Rachel Ward

Rachel Ward (Juliet Forrest)

63.52%

Alan Ladd

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

28.96%

Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner (Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck)

43.85%

Barbara Stanwyck

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

43.05%

Ray Milland

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

66.78%

Ava Gardner

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

39.53%

Burt Lancaster

Burt Lancaster ((in "The Killers") (archive footage))

59.76%

Humphrey Bogart

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

51.84%

Cary Grant

Cary Grant ((in "Suspicion") (archive footage))

66.21%

Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman ((in "Notorious") (archive footage))

53.95%

Veronica Lake

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

21.26%

Bette Davis

Bette Davis ((in "Deception") (archive footage))

61.69%

Lana Turner

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

22.64%

Edward Arnold

Edward Arnold ((in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage))

50.28%

Kirk Douglas

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

72.65%

Fred MacMurray

Fred MacMurray ((in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage))

21.81%

James Cagney

James Cagney ((in "White Heat") (archive footage))

27.03%

Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford ((in "Humoresque") (archive footage))

43.94%

Reni Santoni

Reni Santoni (Carlos Rodriguez)

17.37%

Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton ((in "The Bribe") (archive footage))

23.95%

Vincent Price

Vincent Price ((in "The Bribe") (archive footage))

81.86%

George Gaynes

George Gaynes (Dr. Forrest)

43.00%

Francis X. McCarthy

Francis X. McCarthy (Waiter)

25.22%

Gene LeBell

Gene LeBell (Hood)

33.96%

William Conrad

William Conrad ((in "The Killers") (archive footage))

39.20%

Charles McGraw

Charles McGraw ((in "The Killers") (archive footage))

48.94%

Jeff Corey

Jeff Corey ((in "The Killers") (archive footage))

19.94%

John Miljan

John Miljan ((in "The Killers") (archive footage))

11.69%

Brian Donlevy

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

22.87%

Norma Varden

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

46.16%

Edmond O'Brien

Edmond O'Brien ((in "White Heat") (archive footage))

26.62%

Britt Nilsson

Britt Nilsson (Puppy Secretary)

5.61%

Jean Beaudine

Jean Beaudine (Duty Secretary)

1.00%

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