Hold-Up (film)
- Jean -Paul Belmondo: Grimm
- Kim Cattrall: Lise
- Guy Marchand: Georges
- Jean -Pierre Marielle: Sheriff Lefevre
- Jacques Villeret: Taxi driver Jeremie
- Jean -Claude de Goro Inspector Fox
The boss ( hold-up ) is a crook comedy by French director Alexandre Arcady from the year 1985. The film is based on the 1981 novel, first published Quick change of Jay Cronley.
Action
Grimm, who is called by his gangster colleagues awe of the "Boss", has a crazy idea: Disguised as a clown he penetrates into the largest bank of Montreal and takes the bank employees and customers hostage. Then, the building is surrounded by the police, and the elderly, slightly overwhelmed acting police chief Lefevre explains that he will take the clown quickly. However, Grimm turns out to be a brilliant tactician, he leaves as an apparent gesture of good will free a supposedly pregnant woman, a whiny man and an older man. As Lefevre can storm the bank, he finds only the captured hostages. From the clown and the captured $ 2.3 million, however, there is no trace. The police does not know that Lise, the " pregnant " woman was the one who carried out the booty on her stomach, and even the whiny husband were accomplices of the clown. And that the older gentleman in reality the clown was himself. After leaving the bank, try the three to come as quickly as possible to the airport, and get it in hair-raising adventure: So they lose their car, lawn by mistake in another bank bribe a taxi driver until they finally land at the airport.
Reviews
- Adolf Meier Heinzl and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon " Movies on TV ": " This Belmondo - star vehicle, with its mixture of a lot of action, little talk and imaginative gags acceptable; this was not always so " ( rating: 2 ½ stars = above average).
- Cinema: " Arcadys carefully staged, action-packed movie stands out from the crowd of Belmondo assembly line productions from the 80s. "
- Lexicon of international film: " comedic thriller scale, which is convincing only in the first third, and otherwise comes up with tired old clichés of the genre. "
Background
The film was shot in Canada and Italy and indeed in the cities of Montreal and Rome.
In 1990, Bill Murray turned along with Howard Franklin ( co-directed ) a remake of The Boss. In the film titled Quick Change Bill Murray played the role of the clown, while Geena Davis in the role of " pregnant " accomplice slipped.