Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
When heiress Juliet Forrest suspects her father's fatal mountain crash was a murder tied to his coveted cheese formula, she hires gumshoe Rigby Reardon to expose the deadly conspiracy before the killers silence her forever.
“Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...”
Synopsis
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
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A crew of 45+ credited
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Edited by Bud MolinShot by Michael ChapmanScored by Miklos RozsaDesigned by John Decuir
Box Office
1982 · Box office
⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.0× its budget
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Worldwide gross
$18.2M
Opening weekend: $4.3M — 24% of its US run.
Peak 882 theaters
Also known as
- Tote tragen keine Karosde
- Cliente muerto no pagaes
- Les cadavres ne portent pas de costardfr
- Il mistero del cadavere scomparsoit
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Cast & Crew
45 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Steve Martin
as Rigby Reardon
Rachel Ward
as Juliet Forrest
Steve Martin Nm0000188
as Rigby Reardon
Alan Ladd
as The Exterminator
Carl Reiner
as Field Marshall VonKluck
Barbara Stanwyck
as Leona Hastings-Forrest
Ray Milland
as Sam Hastings
Ava Gardner
as Kitty Collins
Burt Lancaster
as Swede Anderson
Humphrey Bogart
as Phillip Marlowe
Cary Grant
as Johnnie Aysgarth
Ingrid Bergman
as (in "Notorious") (archive footage)
Supporting cast
23Veronica Lake
as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Bette Davis
as (in "Deception") (archive footage)
Lana Turner
as (in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)
Edward Arnold
as (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
Kirk Douglas
as (in "I Walk Alone") (archive footage)
Fred Macmurray
as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
James Cagney
as (in "White Heat") (archive footage)
Joan Crawford
as (in "Humoresque") (archive footage)
Reni Santoni
as Carlos Rodriguez
Charles Laughton
as (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
Vincent Price
as (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
George Gaynes
as Dr. Forrest
Francis X Mccarthy
as Waiter
Gene Lebell
as Hood
William Conrad
as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Charles Mcgraw
as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Jeff Corey
as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
John Miljan
as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Brian Donlevy
as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Norma Varden
as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Edmond O Brien
as (in "White Heat") (archive footage)
Britt Nilsson
as Puppy Secretary
Jean Beaudine
as Duty Secretary
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1Writers
4Producers
2Other crew
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