Four Stiffs and a Trombone (1991)

Original title

L'assassin jouait du trombone

Directed by

Roger Cantin

Genre

comedy, mystery, crime, science fiction

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A night security guard at a film studio imagines himself as a film noir detective. When a killer starts murdering studio employees, he becomes involved in the real investigation.

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What happens

Four Stiffs and a Trombone (French: L'assassin jouait du trombone) is a Canadian crime comedy film, directed by Roger Cantin and released in 1991. The film stars Germain Houde as Augustin Marleau, a nighttime security guard at a film studio who entertains fantasies of being a film noir detective, and becomes involved in a murder investigation when a killer begins murdering employees of the studio. The cast also includes Marc Labrèche, Raymond Bouchard, Normand Lévesque, Gildor Roy, France Castel, Jean-Pierre Bergeron and Paule Baillargeon. A sequel film, The Revenge of the Woman in Black (La vengeance de la femme en noir), was released in 1997. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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