Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...
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'.
ComedyMysteryCrimefather murdernostalgiaparodylos angeles, californiablack and whiteprivate detectivelistprivate eye1940sold footagenazi underworldcollage film
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Character
Ironic, nostalgic, comic and cool.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
Who loves it, who doesn't
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Cast
- Steve MartinRigby Reardon
- Rachel WardJuliet Forrest
- Alan Ladd(in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)
- Carl ReinerJuliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck
- Barbara Stanwyck(in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
- Ray Milland(in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)
- Ava Gardner(in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)
- Burt Lancaster(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
- Humphrey Bogart(in "The Big Sleep" / "In a Lonely Place" / "Dark Passage") (archive footage)
- Cary Grant(in "Suspicion") (archive footage)
Crew
- Carl ReinerDirector
- George GipeScreenplay
- Steve MartinScreenplay
- Carl ReinerScreenplay
- Michael ChapmanDirector of Photography
- Miklós RózsaOriginal Music Composer
- Bud MolinEditor
- William E. McEuenProducer
- David V. PickerProducer
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