Operation Corned Beef (L'Opération Corned-Beef)

Jean-Marie Poiré directed L'Opération Corned-Beef, a French action comedy that reached cinemas in France on 6 February 1991. Filming had taken place during the summer of 1990. Poiré wrote the screenplay with Christian Clavier, and the film was the fifth collaboration between the two. A Gaumont production, it runs about 107 minutes. Its Spanish title is Operación chuleta de ternera.

The story centres on a secret operation codenamed Corned Beef. A pair of secret agents go after Colonel Zargas, who has since become an arms trafficker. Jean Reno plays Philippe Boulier, nicknamed "the Shark", and Christian Clavier plays Jean-Jacques Granianski. Valérie Lemercier is Marie-Laurant Granianski and Isabelle Renauld is Lieutenant Isabelle Fourreau, also known as Marilyn. The film brought Clavier, Reno and Lemercier together on screen for the first time, and the same trio was remembered two years later for the success of Les Visiteurs.

The cast further includes Mireille Rufel, Dan Simkovitch, Didier Gustin, Dimitri Rougeul, Jacques Dacqmine, Jacques François, Jacques Sereys, Marc de Jonge, Philippe Laudenbach and Raymond Gérôme. After France the film was released in Germany and Hungary; it reached Spain on 11 March 1994 and went straight to video in Brazil.