Umbrella Coup (1980)1h35
Comedy · Crime
Director Gérard Oury (7.3 avg)
Also directed Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!, The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, Delusions of Grandeur, and 13 more
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
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Cast
Pierre Richard
Valérie Mairesse
Christine Murillo
Gérard Jugnot
Gordon Mitchell
Roger Carel
Gert Fröbe
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