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There Once Was a Cop
Dir. Georges Lautner
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There Once Was a Cop
Crime
Comedy
Original title: Il était une fois un flic...
Director
Georges Lautner
Screenplay
Georges Lautner, Francis Veber
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.
Release
Feb 11, 1972
Budget
—
Country
France
Revenue
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Cast
Michael Lonsdale
Commissioner Lucas
Michel Constantin
Commissioner Campana alias Louis Lopez
Mireille Darc
Christine alias Françoise
Robert Dalban
Commissioner Chauvet, Superintendent in Nice
Daniel Ivernel
Ligmann
Venantino Venantini
Felice, killer
Hervé Hillien
Bertrand, Christine's son
Henri Guybet
PJ inspector
Robert Castel
Rodriguez, Manoni's man
Giuliano Esperanti
Second killer
Jean-Jacques Moreau
PJ inspector
Charles Southwood
Narcotic Bureau agent
Dado Crostarosa
One of the two young Portuguese
Jean Luisi
Second taxi driver
Fransined
First taxi driver
Charly Bertoni
Narcotic Bureau agent
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