The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)

Original title

Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire

Directed by

Yves Robert

Genre

comedy film, farce, crime film, spy film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

AL

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 487 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A clumsy musician is mistaken for a secret agent by intelligence services. They set him up as a decoy to draw out a mole.

lightheartedplayfulslapstickbumblingwhimsicalsillytongue-in-cheekfast-paced

What happens

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (French: Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire) is a 1972 French spy comedy film directed by Yves Robert and written by Robert and Francis Veber, starring Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort and Mireille Darc. Richard reprised his role as François Perrin in the sequel, The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1974), as well as playing a character with the same name in La Chèvre (1981). The film was remade in English as The Man with One Red Shoe (1985), starring Tom Hanks and Dabney Coleman. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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