Umbrella Coup

Umbrella Coup

95 mins | Crime, Comedy | Oct. 8, 1980

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.

Umbrella Coup

95 mins | Crime, Comedy | Oct. 8, 1980

Umbrella Coup
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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Gaumont, Gaumont International
Original title Le Coup du parapluie
Directors Gérard Oury
Writers Gérard Oury, Danièle Thompson

Cast

Pierre Richard

as Grégoire Lecomte

Valérie Mairesse

as Sylvette, alias Bunny

Christine Murillo

as Josyane Leblanc

Gordon Mitchell

as Moskovitz, le tueur

Roger Carel

as Salvatore Bozzoni

Gert Fröbe

as Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine

Maurice Risch

as Le producteur de Paris

Dominique Lavanant

as Mireille

Axelle Abbadie

as Juliette, la fleuriste

Yaseen Khan

as Radj Kahn

Didier Sauvegrain

as Stanislas Lefort, dit Constantin Patakis, alias Pierre Juvet, dit 'La Folle'

Mike Marshall

as Le docteur

Vittorio Caprioli

as Don Barberini

Patrick Lecocq

as Le journaliste télé

Robert Dalban

as Le régisseur du café-théâtre

Tiberio Murgia

as Lorenzo