The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe


Le Retour du Grand Blond English The Return of the Tall Blond Man or The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe is a film directed by Yves Robert, in 1974. It is the continuation of Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire 1972.

Chief of CounterEspionage Colonel Toulouse has a new boss the former Minister of Agriculture has become the Minister of Interior. Captain Cambrai who has been investigating Colonel Milans death and who is extremely suspicious of Toulouses involvement intercepts a letter written by Perrin to his best friend Maurice who has recovered from his nervous breakdown of the previous film in which Perrin assures Maurice that he Maurice is not crazy and that the events causing Maurices breakdown actually happened. When Maurice refuses to testify against Toulouse, Cambrai comes up with another plan. At Cambrais urging, the new Minister wants to meet the supposed superagent. Toulouse, who cant let anybody know that the Tall Blond was really a civilian chosen at random, orders that Perrin be liquidated at once while informing the Minister and Cambrai that The Tall Blond was killed while on a mission. Attempts to assassinate Perrin in Rio are comically avoided or bungled and his funeral held in France after an erroneously premature report of his death and with a coffin filled with sand is likewise a comic failure the Minister becomes increasingly confused by the conflicting reports and Cambrai, who had counted on the report of Perrins death to get Maurice to testify, is equally stymied.Eventually, Toulouse has Christine kidnapped and forces Perrin to return to Paris to act out the part of the supposed superspy for the Minister. Cambrai is not fooled, however, and in two hilarious scenes Perrin is given embarrassing information from both Toulouse and Cambrai about each of them from their private files Toulouses mother had wanted a daughter and made him wear dresses as a child, causing the other boys to call him Lollipop, and Cambrai who acts tough and ruthless wet his bed when he was young, really hates violence and had suffered an nervous breakdown while trying to interrogate a suspect. Toulouse orchestrates a plan to make Cambrai crack again, setting up a supposedly dangerous y

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