- HD 1080
- Runtime: 95m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: fr
- Country: France
- Director: Gérard Oury
- Stars: Pierre Richard, Valérie Mairesse, Christine Murillo, Gérard Jugnot, Gordon Mitchell
- Production_studio: Gaumont, Gaumont International
- The Umbrella Coup is featured in the top rankings of 1980
- #19 in Top Comedy Movies of 1980
- #6 in Top Crime Movies of 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.