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Title: The Umbrella Coup (1980)
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Cast
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| Pierre Richard | ... | Grégoire Lecomte | |
| Valérie Mairesse | ... | Sylvette, alias Bunny | |
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Christine Murillo | ... | Josyane Leblanc |
| Gordon Mitchell | ... | Moskovitz, le tueur | |
| Gérard Jugnot | ... | Frédo | |
| Maurice Risch | ... | Le producteur de Paris | |
| Dominique Lavanant | ... | Mireille | |
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Axelle Abbadie | ... | Juliette, la fleuriste |
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Yaseen Khan | ... | Radj Kahn |
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Didier Sauvegrain | ... | Stanislas Lefort, dit Constantin Patakis, alias Pierre Juvet, dit 'La Folle' |
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Mike Marshall | ... | Le docteur |
| Roger Carel | ... | Salvatore Bozzoni | |
| Vittorio Caprioli | ... | Don Barberini | |
| Gert Fröbe | ... | Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine (as Gert Froebe) | |
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Patrick Lecocq | ... | Le journaliste télé |
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A womanizer balances his wife, mistress, and love interest.
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Written by Patty S. Hill & Mildred J. Hill
Performed by the orchestra in the hotel
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Some of the secondary music (like the theme we hear in the answer-phone, or the one we hear on the radio) are taken from The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972). See more »Goofs
In the latter part of the movie, when the car is leaving the airport car park, there is a van in the background with a poster on it which says "Gerard Oury et Pierre Richard en 'Le coup du parapluie". See more »Alternate Versions
The USSR release was cut by 15 minutes by censors. See more »Soundtracks
Happy Birthday To YouWritten by Patty S. Hill & Mildred J. Hill
Performed by the orchestra in the hotel
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FrenchRelease Date:
8 October 1980 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Gérard Oury gave us so many successful films over two decades that it's a bit unusual to see a real flop. I don't know what the proceeds were for this one, but it has a lack of rhythm and loose plotting that suggest failure at the box office.
To begin with, the casting: when you can unite Bourvil and de Funès (La grande vadrouille), or Montand and de Funès (La folie des grandeurs), then Pierre Richard and Gérard Jugnot are going to seem small beer in comparison. And the story, so lacking in real tension and pace: an actor has a meeting with a producer, but goes in the wrong door, ends up working for the mob... Haven't we seen this kind of story before?
It's enough to say that Gordon Mitchell has a splendid granite face as the hit-man, and Christine Murillo is very sexy (what happened to her?).