There Once Was a Cop (1972)

About This Movie

There Once Was a Cop is a 1972 crime and comedy film directed by Georges Lautner. Its leading cast includes Michael Lonsdale, Michel Constantin and Mireille Darc. It runs for 1 hour 35 minutes. Its original language is French.

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.

Synopsis from TMDB.

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
• P Phyllis Major Marianne Halifax
• G Ghislain Oyac Manoni's secretary
• P Paul Clerici