Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
1h 29min
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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'.
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Directed by: Carl Reiner, Michael Chapman
Produced by: William E. McEuen, David V. Picker
Composed by: Miklós Rózsa
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)
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