A Pain in the Ass [Blu-ray]

Director: Edouard Molinaro Edouard Molinaro

Overview

Proof of the success of French filmmaker Edouard Molinaro is the fact that several of his home-grown hits have been remade as American films. The most recent example of this is 1996's The Birdcage, a highly profitable reworking of Molinaro's La Cage aux Folles (1978). The director's 1973 comedy A Pain in the A... also went the Cage aux Folles route of enjoying worldwide popularity, then undergoing an Americanization process. In the Molinaro original, Lino Ventura plays a friendless hit man who holes up in an Italian hotel room, awaiting the opportunity to knock off his target, a mob witness. No sooner has Ventura drawn a bead on his would-be victim than he is interrupted by the comically suicidal Jacques Brel, who wants to jump from the open window in the assassin's room. The banter and byplay between Ventura and Brel is priceless, especially when veering towards the "sick" humor that Molinaro handles so well. Based on a play by Francis Veber, Pain in the A... was remade by Billy Wilder as Buddy Buddy (1978), with Walter Matthau as the hit man and Jack Lemmon as his unexpected guest.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/30/2021
UPC:	0738329252601
Original Release:	1973
Rating:	PG
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Language:	English
Time:	1:25:00
Sales rank:	33,826

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Lino Ventura	Ralph
Jacques Brel	Pignon,Composer
Caroline Cellier	Louise
Jean-Pierre Darras	Fuchs
Nino Castelnuovo	Bellhop
Pierre Forget	Felix
Angela Cardile	Actor
Francois Dyrek	Actor
Jean-Louis Tristan	Actor
André Valardy	The
Jean Franval	Actor
Pierre Collet	The
Arlette Balkis	Actor
Michele Gammino	Actor
Francois Rauber	Composer

Technical Credits

Edouard Molinaro

Francis Veber

Edouard Molinaro	Director,Screenwriter
Francis Veber	Screenwriter
Alexandre Mnouchkine	Producer
Georges Dancigers	Producer
Jean-Louis Ducarme	Sound/Sound Designer