Umbrella Coup

Name: Umbrella Coup
Director: Gérard Oury
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1980-10-08
Duration: 95 min
Cast: Pierre Richard, Valérie Mairesse, Christine Murillo, Gérard Jugnot, Gordon Mitchell

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1980 · 95 min · Comedy · Crime · TMDB 6.9/10

Overview

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.

Directed by Gérard Oury

Cast

Pierre Richard — Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps
Valérie Mairesse — Sylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T.
Christine Murillo — Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire
Gérard Jugnot — Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire
Gordon Mitchell — Moskovitz, le tueur à gages