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There Once Was a Cop

Il était une fois un flic...

1972 · 1h 35m · Comedy, Crime · France · Rated TP (FR)

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.

Directed by

Georges Lautner

Written by

Georges Lautner, Francis Veber

Based on the novel by

Starring

Michael Lonsdale, Michel Constantin, Mireille Darc, Robert Dalban

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