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There Once Was a Cop

Original title: Il était une fois un flic...

  • Movie
  • 1972
  • 1h 35m

Directed by Georges Lautner

6.1

TMDB audience rating
6.1 out of 10 from 52 votes

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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.

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Cast and crew

  • Michael Lonsdale

    Michael LonsdaleCommissioner Lucas

  • Michel Constantin

    Michel ConstantinCommissioner Campana alias Louis Lopez

  • Mireille Darc

    Mireille DarcChristine alias Françoise

  • Robert Dalban

    Robert DalbanCommissioner Chauvet, Superintendent in Nice

  • Daniel Ivernel

    Daniel IvernelLigmann

  • Venantino Venantini

    Venantino VenantiniFelice, killer

  • Hervé Hillien

    Hervé HillienBertrand, Christine's son

  • Henri Guybet

    Henri GuybetPJ inspector

  • Robert Castel

    Robert CastelRodriguez, Manoni's man

  • Giuliano Esperanti

    Giuliano EsperantiSecond killer

  • Jean-Jacques Moreau

    Jean-Jacques MoreauPJ inspector

  • Charles Southwood

    Charles SouthwoodNarcotic Bureau agent

  • Dado Crostarosa

    Dado CrostarosaOne of the two young Portuguese

  • Jean Luisi

    Jean LuisiSecond taxi driver

  • Fransined

    FransinedFirst taxi driver

  • Phyllis MajorMarianne Halifax

  • Ghislain OyacManoni's secretary

  • Paul Clerici

Director
Georges Lautner
Writer
Georges Lautner, Francis Veber and Richard Caron
Music
Eddie Vartan
Cinematography
Maurice Fellous