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The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside (1976)

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside (1976)

Crime Comedy
Release Date: 1976, January 7
Directors: Patrice Leconte
Countries: France
Production: Gaumont
Cast: Jean Luisi, Jean Rochefort, Gérard Jugnot, Michel Charrel, Robert Dalban, Darling Légitimus, Coluche, Danièle Evenou, Patrick Guillemin, Jacques Plée, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Jean Péméja

Overview:

A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assistant, Inspector Charbonnier are put on the case. After interviewing friends, wives, colleagues, and spying on strangers who might be connected, our heroes trace the assassin down to a mental institution where, it seems, the murder victim has been an inmate for the last three years...

Keywords:

murder based on comic france spoof black humor asylum police investigation duo toilet police commissioner