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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...

Rating 6.6 / 10Release May 21, 1982Runtime 89 min

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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