Four Stiffs and a Trombone

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Four Stiffs and a Trombone
FrenchL'assassin jouait du trombone
Directed byRoger Cantin
Written byRoger Cantin
Produced byFranco Battista
StarringGermain Houde
Raymond Bouchard
Marc Labrèche
CinematographyRodney Gibbons
Edited byYves Langlois
Music byMilan Kymlicka
Production
company
Allegro Films
Release date
  • September 20, 1991 (1991-09-20)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Four Stiffs and a Trombone (

crime comedy film, directed by Roger Cantin and released in 1991.[1] The film stars Germain Houde as Augustin Marleau, a nighttime security guard at a film studio who entertains fantasies of being a film noir detective, and becomes involved in a murder investigation when a killer begins murdering employees of the studio.[2]

The cast also includes Marc Labrèche, Raymond Bouchard, Normand Lévesque, Gildor Roy, France Castel and Paule Baillargeon.

A sequel film, The Revenge of the Woman in Black (La vengeance de la femme en noir), was released in 1997.[3]

References

  1. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Assassin jouait du trombone, L’ – Film de Roger Cantin". Films du Québec, December 26, 2008.
  2. Montreal Gazette
    , September 22, 1991.
  3. ^ Ray Conlogue, "The silly season: Two established filmmakers have just released light confections untroubled by plot". The Globe and Mail, March 28, 1997.

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