Umbrella Coup (1980)

  • NR
  • 10/10/1980 (US)
  • Comedy, Crime
  • 1h 35m

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.

Gérard Oury

Director, Writer

Danièle Thompson

Writer

Cast

Pierre Richard's headshot

Pierre Richard

Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps
Valérie Mairesse's headshot

Valérie Mairesse

Sylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T.
Christine Murillo's headshot

Christine Murillo

Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire
Gérard Jugnot's headshot

Gérard Jugnot

Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire
Gordon Mitchell's headshot

Gordon Mitchell

Moskovitz, le tueur à gages
Roger Carel's headshot

Roger Carel

Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison
Gert Fröbe's headshot

Gert Fröbe

Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine
Maurice Risch's headshot

Maurice Risch

Le producteur de Paris

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