Movie
Inspector Blunder
Overview
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
Details
- Release date
- 1980-12-03
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Renn Productions, France 3 Cinéma
- Country
- France
- Original language
- FR
Cast
- Coluche as Trainee inspector Michel Clément / Commissioner Jules Clément
- Gérard Depardieu as Roger Morzini, public enemy number 1
- Dominique Lavanant as Marie-Anne Prossant, journalist
- Julien Guiomar as Divisional commissioner Vermillot
- Alain Mottet as Dumeze, police director
- François Perrot as Louis Prossant, press magnate and father of Marie-Anne
- Jean Bouchaud as Inspector Zingo
- Clément Harari as Doctor Haquenbusch
- Philippe Khorsand as Alphonse Rouchard, rapist of the little girl on the canal
- Hubert Deschamps as Inspector Marcel Watrin
- Martin Lamotte as Inspector Gaffuri
- Dany Saval as Antique dealer
Crew
- Claude Zidi - Director
- Claude Zidi - Writer
- Jean Bouchaud - Writer
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