Hold-Up is a Franco-Canadian crime comedy from 1985, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Alexandre Arcady. The screenplay by Arcady, Daniel Saint-Hamont and Francis Veber is based on the novel Quick Change by Jay Cronley. The novel was filmed again, as Quick Change (1990), with Bill Murray starring and co-directing.
Plot Dressed as a clown, Grimm holds up a bank in Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his behavior, he manages to rid the bank of a fortune, but then a companion arouses trouble...
Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo as Grimm Kim Cattrall as Lise Guy Marchand as Georges Jean-Pierre Marielle as Simon Labrosse Jacques Villeret as Jeremie Jean-Claude de Goros as Inspector Fox Tex Konig as Lasky
Box office The film was the 16th highest-grossing movie of its year in France, and was the first time since 1976 that Belmondo has not delivered a top 10 hit movie.
Music The music that Grimm plays in Rome is by Nino Rota from La strada (1954), which also features a clown as a main character.
Soundtrack The soundtrack, composed by Serge Franklin, was released by Music Box Records and includes the complete score of Alexandre Arcady's Last Summer in Tangiers (1987).
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External links
Hold-Up -> ČSFD.cz