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There Once Was a Cop

There Once Was a Cop

1972•1h 35m•6.0/10
CrimeComedy

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6.0/10(45)

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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Production

Gaumont International, Rizzoli Film

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Michael Lonsdale

Michael Lonsdale

Commissioner Lucas

Michel Constantin

Michel Constantin

Commissioner Campana alias Louis Lopez

Mireille Darc

Mireille Darc

Christine alias Françoise

Robert Dalban

Robert Dalban

Commissioner Chauvet, Superintendent in Nice

Daniel Ivernel

Daniel Ivernel

Ligmann

Venantino Venantini

Venantino Venantini

Felice, killer

Hervé Hillien

Hervé Hillien

Bertrand, Christine's son

Henri Guybet

Henri Guybet

PJ inspector

Robert Castel

Robert Castel

Rodriguez, Manoni's man

Giuliano Esperanti

Giuliano Esperanti

Second killer

Jean-Jacques Moreau

Jean-Jacques Moreau

PJ inspector

Charles Southwood

Charles Southwood

Narcotic Bureau agent

Dado Crostarosa

Dado Crostarosa

One of the two young Portuguese

Jean Luisi

Jean Luisi

Second taxi driver

Fransined

Fransined

First taxi driver

Phyllis Major

Marianne Halifax

Ghislain Oyac

Manoni's secretary

Paul Clerici

Jeanne Costi

Daniel Auguste

Policeman

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