Movie
There Once Was a Cop
Overview
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.
Details
- Release date
- 1972-02-11
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Genres
- Crime, Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Gaumont International, Rizzoli Film
- Country
- France
- Original language
- FR
Cast
- Michael Lonsdale as Commissioner Lucas
- Michel Constantin as Commissioner Campana alias Louis Lopez
- Mireille Darc as Christine alias Françoise
- Robert Dalban as Commissioner Chauvet, Superintendent in Nice
- Daniel Ivernel as Ligmann
- Venantino Venantini as Felice, killer
- Hervé Hillien as Bertrand, Christine's son
- Henri Guybet as PJ inspector
- Robert Castel as Rodriguez, Manoni's man
- Giuliano Esperanti as Second killer
- Jean-Jacques Moreau as PJ inspector
- Charles Southwood as Narcotic Bureau agent
Crew
- Georges Lautner - Director
- Georges Lautner - Screenplay
- Francis Veber - Screenplay
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