Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid poster
Screenplay Steve Martin, Carl Reiner, George Gipe
Director Carl Reiner

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Tagline: Laugh...or I’ll blow your lips off!

Release Date: 1982-05-21

Duration: 89 minutes

Synopsis

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'.

Casting

  • Barbara Stanwyck
    (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
  • Rachel Ward
    Juliet Forrest
  • Steve Martin
    Rigby Reardon
  • Kirk Douglas
    (in "I Walk Alone") (archive footage)
  • Vincent Price
    (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
  • Carl Reiner
    Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck
  • Edward Arnold
    (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
  • Bette Davis
    (in "Deception") (archive footage)
  • Burt Lancaster
    (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
  • Ingrid Bergman
    (in "Notorious") (archive footage)