Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...
1982 | 89m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Carl Reiner |
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| Writer: | Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, George Gipe |
| Staring: |
| 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'. | |
| Release Date: | May 21, 1982 |
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| Director: | Carl Reiner |
| Writer: | Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, George Gipe |
| Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Mystery |
| Keywords | father murder, nostalgia, femme fatale, parody, los angeles, california, black and white, private detective, list, private eye, 1940s, old footage, nazi underworld, old hollywood, man disguised as woman, gumshoe, repurposed footage, inner monologue, noir spoof |
| Production Companies | Universal Pictures, Aspen Film Society |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $18,196,170
Budget: $9,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
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| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Carl Reiner | Screenplay, Director |
| Michael Chapman | Director of Photography |
| Steve Martin | Screenplay |
| Edith Head | Costume Design |
| Ernie F. Orsatti | Stunt Coordinator |
| George Gipe | Screenplay |
| James J. Klinger | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Bill Varney | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Richard C. Goddard | Set Decoration |
| Bud Molin | Editor |
| John DeCuir | Production Design |
| Kevin O'Connell | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Steve Maslow | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Miklós Rózsa | Original Music Composer |
| Charlie Picerni | Stunts |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| William E. McEuen | Producer |
| David V. Picker | Producer |
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