Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
"Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off..."
ThumbScore
👍 76%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 72%
(RT: 77%, MC: 67) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Rachel Ward as Juliet Forrest
Alan Ladd as (in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)
Is Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid good?
Most people think so. 76% audience score, estimated from 467 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 72%.
Overview
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'. Wikipedia ↗
