Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

6.8 | 1h29m | PG | en | Comedy

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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6.8 | 1h29m | PG | en | Comedy , Crime , Mystery

Synopsis

Cast

Steve Martin , Rachel Ward , Alan Ladd

Director

John DeCuir

Producted By

Universal Pictures , Aspen Film Society

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Cast

Steve Martin

as Rigby Reardon

[2025] SNL50: The Anniversary Special [2025] Starring Dick Van Dyke [2025] Thank You Very Much [2025] John Candy: I Like Me [2024] STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces [2023] A Saturday Night Live Christmas Special [2022] Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It) [2021] Only Murders in the Building [2021] Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres

Rachel Ward

as Juliet Forrest

[2023] Rachel's Farm [2018] Peter Rabbit [2017] The Death and Life of Otto Bloom [2007] Rain Shadow [2006] Monarch Cove [2006] Blackbeard [2006] Blackbeard [2002] Johnson County War [2002] Johnson County War

Alan Ladd

as (in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)

[2022] Rat Pack [2009] The Blue Dahlia [2004] Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6 [1999] Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man [1982] Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid [1964] Duel of Champions [1964] The Carpetbaggers [1962] 13 West Street [1960] Guns of the Timberland