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Umbrella Coup
1980 6.9 (168 votes) 1h 35m
Genres
Comedy Crime
Production Companies
Gaumont
Gaumont International

Umbrella Coup (Le Coup du parapluie)

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.

Key Crew

Director: Gérard Oury

Writer: Danièle Thompson, Gérard Oury

Director of Photography: Henri Decaë

Top Cast

Pierre Richard
Pierre Richard

Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps

Valérie Mairesse
Valérie Mairesse

Sylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T.

Christine Murillo
Christine Murillo

Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire

Gérard Jugnot
Gérard Jugnot

Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire

Gordon Mitchell
Gordon Mitchell

Moskovitz, le tueur à gages

Roger Carel
Roger Carel

Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison

Gert Fröbe
Gert Fröbe

Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine

Maurice Risch
Maurice Risch

Le producteur de Paris

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