Movie: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Top 10 Billed Cast

Steve Martin
Steve Martin

Rigby Reardon

Rachel Ward
Rachel Ward

Juliet Forrest

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

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

Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner

Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck

Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck

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

Ray Milland
Ray Milland

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

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

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

Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster

(in "The Killers") (archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart

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

Cary Grant
Cary Grant

(in "Suspicion") (archive footage)

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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) (TV Spot)

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