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The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

Name: The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Director: Jean Girault
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction
Released: 1979
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch, Jean-Pierre Rambal, Guy Grosso

The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.

1979 · Directed by Jean Girault · 96 min · Comedy · Science Fiction · 9 frames

Crew

Screenplay: Gérard Beytout, Jean Girault, Louis de Funès, Jacques Vilfrid
Cinematography: Didier Tarot, Marcel Grignon
Edited by: Michel Lewin
Music: Raymond Lefèvre
Production design: Sydney Bettex
Produced by: Gérard Beytout

Cast

Louis de Funès as Ludovic Cruchot
Michel Galabru as Jérôme Gerber
Maurice Risch as Henri Beaupied
Jean-Pierre Rambal as Charles Taupin
Guy Grosso as Gaston Tricard
Michel Modo as Jules Berlicot
France Rumilly as Soeur Clotilde
Jean-Roger Caussimon as L'évêque
Mario David as Le voleur du bidon d'huile
Jacques François as Le colonel de gendarmerie

Production

Country: France
Language: English, French
Studios: SNC
Themes: cyborg, gendarmerie, space invasion, saint-tropez, france, alien, alien invasion, human vs alien, alien doppelganger

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