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'.
Media
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) (TV Spot)
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) Original Trailer [HD]
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)
Ava Gardner
(in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)
Burt Lancaster
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
(in "The Big Sleep" / "In a Lonely Place" / "Dark Passage") (archive footage)
Cary Grant
(in "Suspicion") (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman
(in "Notorious") (archive footage)
Veronica Lake
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Bette Davis
(in "Deception") (archive footage)
Lana Turner
(in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)
Edward Arnold
(in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
Kirk Douglas
(in "I Walk Alone") (archive footage)
Fred MacMurray
(in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
James Cagney
(in "White Heat") (archive footage)
Joan Crawford
(in "Humoresque") (archive footage)
Reni Santoni
Carlos Rodriguez
Charles Laughton
(in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
Vincent Price
(in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
George Gaynes
Dr. Forrest
Francis X. McCarthy
Waiter
Gene LeBell
Hood
William Conrad
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Charles McGraw
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Jeff Corey
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
John Miljan
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Brian Donlevy
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Norma Varden
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Edmond O'Brien
(in "White Heat") (archive footage)
Britt Nilsson
Puppy Secretary
Jean Beaudine
Duty Secretary
