Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...
1982 · PG · 1h 29m · Comedy, Mystery, Crime
Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Crime
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.
Director: Carl Reiner
Writers: George Gipe, Steve Martin, Carl Reiner
Music by: Miklós Rózsa
Cinematography: Michael Chapman
Editor: Bud Molin
Box office: $18M · Budget: $9M · Rated 6.7/10 by 454 viewers
Cast
Steve Martin as Rigby ReardonRachel Ward as Juliet ForrestAlan Ladd as (in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)Carl Reiner as Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von KluckBarbara 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)Ingrid Bergman as (in "Notorious") (archive footage)Veronica Lake as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)More like this
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