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The Gendarme Takes Off

Name: The Gendarme Takes Off
Director: Jean Girault
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1970
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Louis de Funès, Jean Lefebvre, Guy Grosso, Michel Modo, Nicole Vervil

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.

1970 · Directed by Jean Girault · 90 min · Comedy · 9 frames

Crew

Screenplay: Richard Balducci, Jean Girault, Jacques Vilfrid
Cinematography: Pierre Montazel
Edited by: Armand Psenny
Music: Raymond Lefèvre
Production design: Sydney Bettex
Produced by: René Pignières

Cast

Louis de Funès as Ludovic Cruchot
Jean Lefebvre as Lucien Fougasse
Guy Grosso as Gaston Tricard
Michel Modo as Jules Berlicot
Nicole Vervil as Cécilia Gerber
France Rumilly as Schwester Clothilde
Yves Vincent as Colonel
Christian Marin as Albert Merlot
Claude Gensac as Josépha Cruchot
Michel Galabru as Jérôme Gerber

Production

Country: France
Language: French
Studios: SNC
Themes: amnesia, hippie, chaos, retiree, retirement, nostalgia, gendarmerie, rocket, saint-tropez, france, generation gap

More by Jean Girault

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space — 1979
The Miser — 1980
The Gendarme Gets Married — 1968
The Cabbage Soup — 1981

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