The Umbrella Coup
The Umbrella Coup is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Pierre Richard, Gordon Mitchell and Gert Fröbe.
Plot
The unsuccessful actor and notorious ladies’ man Grégoire Lecomte is heading for a casting hoping to land the role of a hitman in a new comedy. His goal is to use the paycheck to settle debts — unpaid fines from the road police and outstanding repair fees to a service company for plumbing issues (the latter is revealed through a voicemail message from a plumber threatening legal action). Grégoire mistakenly enters the wrong room and finds himself in a meeting with real mafia members. He confuses their boss, Don Barberini, for a film producer, while the mobsters mistakenly believe Grégoire to be an actual assassin. Don Barberini gives him a 50,000-franc advance and sends him to Saint-Tropez to eliminate Otto Krampe, nicknamed "Whale," a weapons dealer accused of selling faulty arms to an African leader. Don also warns Grégoire about Whale’s dangerous bodyguards, who double as his personal doctors.
Cast
- Axelle Abbadie
- Brigitte Lahaie
- Christine Murillo
- Didier Cherbuy
- Didier Sauvegrain
- Dominique Lavanant
- Gérard Jugnot
- Gert Fröbe
- Gordon Mitchell
- Henri Attal
- Jacques Maury
- Jean-Jacques Moreau
- Jérôme Keen
- Léon Zitrone
- Marie-Pierre Casey
- Maurice Auzel
- Maurice Risch
- Mike Marshall
- Patrick Lecocq
- Philippe Bruneau
- Pierre Richard
- Raymond Gérôme
- Robert Dalban
- Roger Carel
- Valérie Mairesse
- Vittorio Caprioli
More details
| author | Danièle Thompson http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q470798 |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Paris Saint-Tropez |
| director | http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q470798 |
| editor | Albert Jurgenson |
| genre | comedy crime |
| keywords | act car accident cast double agent film festival film shoot laugh married meet murder weapon park plumb poison police officer potassium cyanide professional assassin st-tropez syringe true identity undercover agent weapons dealer |
| musicBy | Vladimir Cosma |
| producer | Alain Poiré |
| productionCompany | Gaumont International |
| publisher | Gaumont Film Company |
| recordedAt | Cannes Nice Saint-Tropez |
| theme | crime comedy mafia comedy screwball comedy |