Film
Umbrella Coup
1980Directed by Gérard Oury
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
About Umbrella Coup
- Comedy
- Crime
Synopsis
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.
- Director
- Gérard Oury
- Writers
- Danièle Thompson
- Gérard Oury
- Original title
- Le Coup du parapluie
Principal cast
In billing order- Pierre RichardGrégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps
- Valérie MairesseSylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T.
- Christine MurilloJosyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire
- Gérard JugnotFrédo, agent artistique de Grégoire
- Gordon MitchellMoskovitz, le tueur à gages
- Roger CarelSalvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison
