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There Once Was a Cop

1972 · TMDB 6.1 · Il était une fois un flic...

Directed by Georges Lautner

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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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...

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Runtime
95 min
Released
1972-02-11
Studio
Gaumont International
Country
France
Language
French
TMDB score
6.1
Comedy Crime

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