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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

Comedy · 1964

The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.

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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

“Beguiling BATHING BEAUTIES will give you a load of laughs!”

1964 Comedy 1h 29m

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7.0 / 10

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The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.

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Directed by

Jean Girault

Written by

Richard Balducci · Jean Girault · Jacques Vilfrid

Louis de Funès

Louis de Funès

Ludovic Cruchot

Geneviève Grad

Geneviève Grad

Nicole Cruchot

Michel Galabru

Michel Galabru

Jérôme Gerber

Daniel Cauchy

Daniel Cauchy

Richard

Maria Pacôme

Maria Pacôme

Émilie Lareine-Leroy

Claude Piéplu

Claude Piéplu

André-Hugues Boiselier

Madeleine Delavaivre

Madeleine Delavaivre

Woman on holiday

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Put Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez on trial.

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The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.