Four Stiffs and a Trombone | |
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Director: | Roger Cantin |
Producer: | Franco Battista |
Starring: | Germain Houde Raymond Bouchard Marc Labrèche |
Music: | Milan Kymlicka |
Cinematography: | Rodney Gibbons |
Editing: | Yves Langlois |
Studio: | Allegro Films |
Runtime: | 96 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | French |
Four Stiffs and a Trombone (French: L'assassin jouait du trombone) is a Canadian 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]