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The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe poster
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
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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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