Dead men don't wear plaid [DVD]

United States, 1982

Film
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Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon, the best private eye of all time. Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward) comes to his office with a case. Her father, a noted scientist, philanthropist and cheesemaker has mysteriously died. A complex trail of clues leads Reardon to “Carlotta’s lists”. Reiner has captured the essence of 1940’s detective films and presents an exciting but “fun” film. Reardon’s special “friends” include Alan Ladd, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart and Charles Laughton.

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Credits

director

Carl Reiner

co-producer

David V. Picker

William McEuen

production company

Aspen Film Society

Universal Pictures

Duration

01:28:00:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1982

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

315938

Languages

Danish

Dutch

English

English

English

Finnish

German

German

Norwegian

Swedish

Audience classification

MA

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

DVD; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q497027

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