Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
“Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...”
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'.
Genres
Comedy, Mystery, Crime
Studio
Universal Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid performed
Budget
$9.0M
Worldwide Gross
$18.2M
Gross Profit
$9.2M
Return
2.0× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$3M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Rigby Reardon
Steve Martin
Rigby Reardon
Juliet Forrest
Rachel Ward
Juliet Forrest
(in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)
Alan Ladd
(in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)
Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck
Carl Reiner
Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck
(in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck
(in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
(in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)
Ray Milland
(in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)
(in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)
Ava Gardner
(in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Burt Lancaster
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
(in "The Big Sleep" / "In a Lonely Place" / "Dark Passage") (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
(in "The Big Sleep" / "In a Lonely Place" / "Dark Passage") (archive footage)
(in "Suspicion") (archive footage)
Cary Grant
(in "Suspicion") (archive footage)
(in "Notorious") (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman
(in "Notorious") (archive footage)
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Veronica Lake
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
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