Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Movie • 1982 • PG • 1:29 hours

Status

Rate

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Genres

Comedy Mystery Crime

Details

Original LanguageEN

Release date21 May 1982

StatusReleased

Movie duration89 min / 1:29 hours

Budget$9,000,000.00

Revenue$18,196,170.00 (+$9,196,170.00)

Companies

Universal Pictures Aspen Film Society

Countries

United States of America

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Keywords

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Cast

Steve Martin
Rigby Reardon

Rachel Ward
Juliet Forrest

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)

Crew

Carl Reiner
Director

George Gipe
Screenplay

Steve Martin
Screenplay

William E. McEuen
Producer

Carl Reiner
Screenplay

Michael Chapman
Director of Photography

Videos

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'.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Movie • 1982 • PG • 1:29 hours

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