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The Gendarme Takes Off(1970)
Status: Released
Date: 1970-10-28
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504 Votes
Time: 1h 30m
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The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
Languages: French.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies:
SNC
Movie: The Gendarme Takes Off
Top 10 Billed Cast
Louis de Funès
Ludovic Cruchot
Jean Lefebvre
Lucien Fougasse
Guy Grosso
Gaston Tricard
Michel Modo
Jules Berlicot
Nicole Vervil
Cécilia Gerber
France Rumilly
Schwester Clothilde
Yves Vincent
Colonel
Christian Marin
Albert Merlot
Claude Gensac
Josépha Cruchot
Michel Galabru
Jérôme Gerber
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The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
Release Date
1970-10-28
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