Overview - Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Date of release

Genres

  • Comedy
  • Mystery
  • Crime

Runtime: 89 minutes

Homepage: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Budget

$9,000,000.00

Revenue

$18,196,170.00

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Universal Pictures

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Aspen Film Society

    Production country United States of America

Overview

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'.

Cast

  • Name: Steve Martin

    Character: Rigby Reardon

    Popularity: 1.437

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  • Name: Rachel Ward

    Character: Juliet Forrest

    Popularity: 1.9492

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  • Name: Alan Ladd

    Character: (in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)

    Popularity: 0.6767

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  • Name: Carl Reiner

    Character: Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck

    Popularity: 0.571

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  • Name: Barbara Stanwyck

    Character: (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)

    Popularity: 0.743

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  • Name: Ray Milland

    Character: (in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)

    Popularity: 0.4527

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  • Name: Ava Gardner

    Character: (in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)

    Popularity: 1.1606

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  • Name: Burt Lancaster

    Character: (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

    Popularity: 1.0452

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