Where to watch Umbrella Coup(1980)

Movie · 1980 · 1h 35m · Comedy, Crime

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Umbrella Coup plot summary

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.

Details

Original title: Le Coup du parapluie
Release date: October 8, 1980
Runtime: 1h 35m
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Directed by: Gérard Oury
Country: France
TMDB rating: 6.9 / 10 · 199 votes

Cast

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
Gert FröbeOtto Krampe, dit La Baleine
Maurice RischLe producteur de Paris
Dominique LavanantMireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire
Axelle AbbadieJuliette, la fleuriste, ex-femme non divorcée de Grégoire