The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Theatrical release poster
FrenchLe Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire
Directed byYves Robert
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRené Mathelin
Edited byGhislaine Desjonqueres
Music byVladimir Cosma
Production
companies
Distributed byGaumont Distribution
Release date
  • 6 December 1972 (1972-12-06)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$4.3 million (West Germany)[1]

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. Richard reprised his role as François Perrin in the sequel, The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1974), as well as playing a character with the same name in La Chèvre (1981).

The film was remade in English as The Man with One Red Shoe (1985), starring Tom Hanks and Dabney Coleman.

  1. ^ Kocian, Billy (7 May 1975). "In Germany Big Pics Do Biz". Variety. p. 275. Retrieved 13 April 2024 – via Internet Archive.