Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

May. 21,1982      PG
Rating:
6.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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'.

Steve Martin as  Rigby Reardon
Rachel Ward as  Juliet Forrest
Alan Ladd as  (in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)
Carl Reiner as  Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck
Barbara 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)

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