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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Released: May 21, 1982 (1982)

Runtime: 89 minutes

Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Crime

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'.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

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

    Age at release: 82

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

    Age at release: 78

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

    Age at release: 75

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

    Age at release: 74

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

    Age at release: 68

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

    Age at release: 68

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

    Age at release: 60

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

    Age at release: 59

  • Steve Martin as Rigby Reardon

    Age at release: 36

  • Rachel Ward as Juliet Forrest

    Age at release: 24

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

    Age at release: 92

  • John Miljan as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

    Age at release: 89

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

    Age at release: 82

  • Charles Laughton as (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)

    Age at release: 82

  • Brian Donlevy as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

    Age at release: 81

  • Joan Crawford as (in "Humoresque") (archive footage)

    Age at release: 76

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

    Age at release: 74

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

    Age at release: 73

  • Vincent Price as (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)

    Age at release: 70

  • Charles McGraw as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

    Age at release: 68

  • Jeff Corey as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

    Age at release: 67

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

    Age at release: 66

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

    Age at release: 65

  • George Gaynes as Dr. Forrest

    Age at release: 65

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

    Age at release: 61

  • William Conrad as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

    Age at release: 61

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

    Age at release: 59

  • Gene LeBell as Hood

    Age at release: 49

  • Reni Santoni as Carlos Rodriguez

    Age at release: 43

  • Age at release: 40