Umbrella Coup (1980)

About This Movie

Umbrella Coup is a 1980 comedy and crime film directed by Gérard Oury. Its leading cast includes Pierre Richard, Valérie Mairesse and Christine Murillo. It runs for 1 hour 35 minutes. Its original language is French.

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.

Synopsis from TMDB.

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
• Roger Carel Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison
• Gert Fröbe Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine
• Maurice Risch Le producteur de Paris
• Dominique Lavanant Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire
• Axelle Abbadie Juliette, la fleuriste, ex-femme non divorcée de Grégoire
• Yaseen Khan Radj Kahn, homme de main de La Baleine
• Didier Sauvegrain Stanislas Lefort, dit Constantin Patakis, alias Pierre Juvet, dit 'La Folle'
• Mike Marshall Le docteur, homme de main de La Baleine
• Vittorio Caprioli Don Barberini, mafioso italien
• Tiberio Murgia Lorenzo, homme de confiance de Don Barberini
• Patrick Lecocq Le journaliste télé
• Robert Dalban Le régisseur du café-théâtre
• G Georges Anderson