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There Once Was a Cop

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

1972 · 1h 35m

Directed by Georges Lautner

6.1

TMDB audience score
52 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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

  • 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

  • Phyllis Major
    Marianne Halifax

  • Ghislain Oyac
    Manoni's secretary

  • Paul Clerici