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Umbrella Coup (1980)

Umbrella Coup (1980)

Crime Comedy
Release Date: 1980, October 8
Directors: Gérard Oury
Countries: France
Production: Gaumont, Gaumont, Gaumont International, Gaumont International
Cast: Tiberio Murgia, Gert Fröbe, Gordon Mitchell, Mike Marshall, Maurice Risch, Vittorio Caprioli, Pierre Richard, Gérard Jugnot, Dominique Lavanant, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dalban, Didier Sauvegrain

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.