Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

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 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.

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Cast

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  Steve Martin
  Rigby Reardon

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  Rachel Ward
  Juliet Forrest

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  Alan Ladd
  (in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)

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  Carl Reiner
  Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck

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  Barbara Stanwyck
  (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)

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  Ray Milland
  (in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)

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  Ava Gardner
  (in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)

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  Burt Lancaster
  (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

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  Humphrey Bogart
  (in "The Big Sleep" / "In a Lonely Place" / "Dark Passage") (archive footage)

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  Cary Grant
  (in "Suspicion") (archive footage)

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  Ingrid Bergman
  (in "Notorious") (archive footage)

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  Veronica Lake
  (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

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  Bette Davis
  (in "Deception") (archive footage)

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  Lana Turner
  (in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)

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  Edward Arnold
  (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)

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  Kirk Douglas
  (in "I Walk Alone") (archive footage)

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  Fred MacMurray
  (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)

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  James Cagney
  (in "White Heat") (archive footage)