The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe

This French farce stars physical comic Pierre Richard as the naive Francois, who is mistakenly dubbed a spy as the result of interior spats in the French Secret Service. Unwittingly the target of assassins, and chief Toulouse's (Jean Rochefort) plot to trap another agent, Francois continues to muddle through his otherwise unremarkable life as it seems to fall apart before him. Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe was given a fittingly titled sequel Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe(1974) and even remade in the States as The Man with One Red Shoe (1985).