PickFlick
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Part of The Tall Blond Man Collection

1972•1h 30m•7.0/10
ComedyMystery

Ratings

🎬TMDb
7.0/10(471)

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.

Open in PickFlick

Production

Madeleine Films, Gaumont, Les Productions de la Guéville

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Pierre Richard

Pierre Richard

François Perrin

Bernard Blier

Bernard Blier

Colonel Bernard Milan

Jean Rochefort

Jean Rochefort

Colonel Louis Toulouse

Mireille Darc

Mireille Darc

Christine

Paul Le Person

Paul Le Person

Perrache

Jean Carmet

Jean Carmet

Maurice Lefebvre, Perrin's best friend

Colette Castel

Colette Castel

Paulette Lefebvre

Maurice Barrier

Maurice Barrier

Chaperon, Toulouse agent

Robert Dalban

Robert Dalban

Coco, fake delivery man

Robert Castel

Robert Castel

Georghiu, Milan agent

Jean Obé

Jean Obé

Botrel, Milan agent

Jean Saudray

Jean Saudray

Poucet, Toulouse agent

Roger Caccia

Mr. Boudart, Milan agent

Arlette Balkis

Mrs. Boudart, Milan agent

Tania Balachova

Tania Balachova

Louis Toulouse's mother

Bernard Charlan

Bernard Charlan

Cyclist

Yves Robert

Yves Robert

Conductor

Jean-Michel Molé

Jean-Michel Molé

Man with Russian dolls

Marcel Gassouk

Marcel Gassouk

Florist van driver

Xavier Gélin

Xavier Gélin

Convertible driver

Recommended

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

6.5
1974
Movie

With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy," Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation into the death of Colonel Milan.

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1974
6.5
Umbrella Coup

Umbrella Coup

6.9
1980
Movie

Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.

Umbrella Coup

1980
6.9
French Tour

French Tour

5.3
2016
Movie

Far’Hook is a 20-year-old rapper. Following a violent dispute with a rival, he’s forced to leave Paris for a while. His producer, Bilal, suggests that Far’Hook acts as driver for Bilal’s father, Serge, on a tour of French ports, following in the footsteps of the classic painter Joseph Vernet. Despite the age gap and culture clash, an unlikely friendship forms between this talented rapper and a bricklayer from the north of France during a road trip that concludes in Marseille for a final concert, one of reconciliation.

French Tour

2016
5.3
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

5.9
2017
Movie

In the wake of their father’s death, two children gradually come to realize the perverse nature of their upbringing.

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

2017
5.9
The Long Recess

The Long Recess

7.3
1972
Movie

A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.

The Long Recess

1972
7.3
Transsex

Transsex

3.3
1988
Movie

The director takes a look at the situation of transgender people in Poland in the late 1980s. He interviews trans people themselves and polls passers-by on the street about the topic they’ve given very little thought to. Among expressions of disgust and condemnation, there is only one completely different voice.

Transsex

1988
3.3
Manon of the Spring

Manon of the Spring

6.6
1953
Movie

Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources and Ugolin.

Manon of the Spring

1953
6.6
My Skinny Sister

My Skinny Sister

6.9
2015
Movie

Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The disease slowly tears the family apart. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal told with warmth, depth and laughter - on and off the ice.

My Skinny Sister

2015
6.9
Atlantic Wall

Atlantic Wall

6.2
1970
Movie

1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.

Atlantic Wall

1970
6.2
The Final Master

The Final Master

7.0
2015
Movie

Determined to pass down his art, the Final Master of Wing Chun is caught in a power struggle with malicious local officials and ultimately must choose between personal honor and his master’s dying wish.

The Final Master

2015
7.0
Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator

Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator

6.2
1988
Movie

Yan is a successful artist. One day he is waiting for his date Florence to turn up at his apartment. As the doorbell rings, he finds another young woman in underwear on his doorstep: his neighbor Eva! She tells him she locked herself out of her apartment and insists that he helps her. Whilst Yan is trying to enter Eva's apartment via their adjoining balcony, his phone rings. It is Florence, and she is not impressed when a female voice answers the phone. At this point, Eva's rabidly jealous boyfriend Boris returns home. Seeing Yan in his apartment, he deduces that Eva has been having an affair behind his back. Florence then turns up and Yan tries in vain to explain the situation. By chance, Florence's husband suddenly puts in an appearance. After that, it all starts to get a bit complicated.

Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator

1988
6.2
The Great Spy Chase

The Great Spy Chase

6.8
1964
Movie

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.

The Great Spy Chase

1964
6.8

Similar Movies

Beverly Hills Cop

Beverly Hills Cop

7.2
1984
Movie

Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, he heads to sunny Beverly Hills to work the case like only he can.

Beverly Hills Cop

1984
7.2
Beverly Hills Cop II

Beverly Hills Cop II

6.5
1987
Movie

Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is associated with a series of "alphabet" robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin—and the chase is on.

Beverly Hills Cop II

1987
6.5
Waltz Me Around

Waltz Me Around

4.7
1920
Movie

Snub, the delivery man, and his assistant, Sunny, are returning from a delivery when they almost run over a lost woman. After she asks for directions, they accompany the woman to a dance school, where Snub is mistaken for the new professor.

Waltz Me Around

1920
4.7
The Spy with a Cold Nose

The Spy with a Cold Nose

2.8
1966
Movie

A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the Russians send the dog to a veterinary, British intelligence must get to the dog first and retrieve the spying device.

The Spy with a Cold Nose

1966
2.8
Day for Night

Day for Night

7.7
1973
Movie

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Day for Night

1973
7.7
Lemming

Lemming

6.5
2005
Movie

After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased...

Lemming

2005
6.5
Forces of Nature

Forces of Nature

5.5
1999
Movie

Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagull flies into the engine as the plane is taking off. All later flights are cancelled because of an approaching hurricane, so he is forced to hitch a ride in a Geo Metro with an attractive but eccentric woman named Sara.

Forces of Nature

1999
5.5
Entrapment

Entrapment

6.2
1999
Movie

Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.

Entrapment

1999
6.2
Spoiled Children

Spoiled Children

6.2
1977
Movie

Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.

Spoiled Children

1977
6.2
Cat Run 2

Cat Run 2

4.5
2014
Movie

A couple of fumbling best friends run a private detective agency and find themselves solving their next case in New Orleans, becoming embroiled in a web of sexy female spies and government conspiracy in the lively and character-filled backdrops of the Big Easy

Cat Run 2

2014
4.5
Laura

Laura

7.6
1944
Movie

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Laura

1944
7.6
Along Came a Spider

Along Came a Spider

6.3
2001
Movie

After the harrowing death of his partner, forensic psychologist and best-selling author Alex Cross cannot forgive himself and has retreated to the peace of retirement. But when a brilliant criminal kidnaps a senator's young daughter, he is lured back into action as the kidnapper wants to deal with Alex personally. Teamed with Jezzie Flanigan, the Secret Service agent assigned to protect the missing girl, Alex follows a serpentine trail of clues that leads him to a stunning discovery - the kidnapper wants more than just ransom.

Along Came a Spider

2001
6.3