Rediscover a Pierre Richard who will die of laughter with this superb poster The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe!
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Description of this The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe Poster
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe is a 1972 French spy film directed by Yves Robert and written by Robert and Francis Veber, starring Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort, and Mireille Darc. Pierre Richard reprised his role as François Perrin in the sequels, The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, released in 1974, and The Goat, released in 1981.
Bernard Milan, second-in-command of French counterintelligence, seeks to discredit his chief, Louis Toulouse, so he can supplant him. When a French heroin trafficker arrested in New York claims that the drug deal was a secret mission on the orders of French counterintelligence (actually on Milan’s orders), the resulting bad press reflects badly on Toulouse, who cannot prove that Milan is responsible. In retaliation, Toulouse devises a plan to deal with his ambitious subordinate: in a room he knows is filled with hidden bugs, he sends his assistant Perrache to Orly Airport at 9:30 the next morning, leading Milan (who has been listening) to believe that Perrache has gone to meet with a master spy who will expose Milan’s betrayal. However, Toulouse secretly asks Perrache to choose someone at random from the crowd of travelers arriving at that hour.
After considering several possibilities among the passengers on the flight arriving at the appointed time, Perrache chooses François Perrin, an unsuspecting violinist who is noted because, following a prank played on him by his orchestra colleagues, he arrived with a black shoe on one foot and a reddish-brown shoe on the other. Milan takes the bait and immediately begins a series of attempts to find out what Perrin knows, without realizing that the latter knows nothing about espionage (despite being a music expert). Milan’s machinations place Perrin in a series of increasingly strange adventures, which he either avoids or escapes by sheer luck (which only confirms Milan’s increasingly paranoid suspicions), and although Perrin is largely oblivious to the chaos occurring around him, he cannot help but notice Milan’s top agent, the beautiful femme fatale Christine. To add to the confusion, Perrin is having an affair with Paulette Lefebvre, the wife of his best friend Maurice (both musicians in the same orchestra as Perrin), and Maurice, after overhearing a recording of Perrin and Paulette having steamy sex (made by Milan’s agents and listened to inside a flower delivery truck), wrongly concludes that Paulette is having an affair with a florist. Meanwhile, Toulouse and Perrache calmly observe the chaos, although Perrache is disturbed by his boss’s insensitivity to the risk of Perrin being killed.
Christine greets Perrin at the door of her apartment in a high-necked black velvet dress, then turns around and reveals that the dress is backless, revealing a discreet cleavage of her buttocks. A burlesque love scene ensues (observed by Milan and his cronies on a television screen) which ends with Milan deciding (despite Christine’s conviction that Perrin cannot be an agent) to have Perrin eliminated. The chaos (Maurice learns the truth about his wife’s affair) and betrayal (Christine leaves Milan’s group to save Perrin, with whom she has fallen in love) continue, culminating in the deaths of agents from both Toulouse’s and Milan’s groups, as well as Milan himself, who only learns the truth about Perrin from Perrache, just before his death. Realizing how thoroughly he has been fooled, Milan dies with a smile of appreciation. Maurice, who has witnessed the aftermath of the shootings in Perrin’s apartment several times, suffers a complete mental breakdown.
The film ends as it began, at Orly Airport. Perrin pushes a huge Louis Vuitton trunk into an airport luggage cart, speaking softly to Christine, who is hidden inside. Their destination is Rio de Janeiro. Toulouse, who had been following Perrin’s departure on a screen, asked Perrache to contact Perrin upon his return, adding: “After all, he’s doing pretty well.”