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| Original title |
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid |
| Year |
2002 |
| First Published |
1982 |
| Amazon ID |
B00005UWQL |
| IMDB ID. |
tt0083798 |
| International Article Number |
3259190359796 |
Cast
- Steve Martin as Rigby Reardon
- Rachel Ward as Juliet Forrest
- Alan Ladd ( as in "This Gun For Hire" (archive footage))
- Carl Reiner as Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck
- Barbara Stanwyck ( as in "Sorry - Wrong Number" (archive footage))
- Ray Milland ( as in "The Lost Weekend" (archive footage))
- Ava Gardner ( as in "The Killers" / "The Bribe" (archive footage))
- Burt Lancaster ( as in "The Killers" (archive footage))
Information was most recently updated Thu Jun 19 17:37:03 2025
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.” Searching for answers, Rigby encounters assorted low–lifes: dangerous men and women who were the hallmarks of the classic detective movies of the 40’s and 50’s.
Filming in black and white allows scenes from old movies to be cut into this film. It is through this process that Rigby’s assistant is none other than Philip Marlowe himself.