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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.
Aug 30, 1973 · With Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort, Mireille Darc. A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
- (9.3K)
- Comedy, Mystery
- Yves Robert
- 1973-08-30
A French comedy about a random man caught in a spy game because of his mismatched shoes. Roger Ebert praises the premise but criticizes the slack pace and the lack of risks in the film.
May 24, 2017 · Picked out of an airport crowd because of his mismatched shoes — the result of a practical joke — and used as a decoy in an operation to expose an ambitious spymaster (Bernard Blier) as a traitor, Perrin haplessly avoids capture through a combination of ignorance and sheer luck.
The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe. Desperate to protect his job from a bureaucratic rival, the head of the French secret service (Jean Rochefort) picks outs a stranger, François Perrin (Pierre Richard), from a Paris crowd and singles him out as a master spy who should be tracked very closely.
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Hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.