Synopsis
Out of It (La Carapate, 1978) is a French comedy starring Pierre Richard that you can watch online on iFILM. Timid lawyer Duroc shows up at a prison to see his death-row client, and picks the worst possible afternoon: a full-blown riot erupts the moment he's inside.
Swept up in the mass breakout, the hapless attorney finds himself outside the walls, dodging guards' bullets alongside Gallard (Victor Lanoux), the hulking inmate the police blame for starting the whole mess. It's the classic mismatched pair — a fussy, panicking intellectual chained by circumstance to a hardened crook. Through car chases, disguises, hiding out in strangers' homes and one near-disaster after another, the reluctant travelers slowly turn into genuine friends.
Behind the camera is Gérard Oury, the man behind La Grande Vadrouille, a master of broad French farce. Richard does his trademark butterfingered routine, fumbling everything at exactly the wrong moment. A breezy hundred minutes for anyone who loves old European comedy with no mean streak in it. Stream Out of It (1978) online on iFILM.
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