There Once Was a Cop

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.

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Key crew

• Georges LautnerDirector
• Georges LautnerScreenplay
• Francis VeberScreenplay
• Eddie VartanOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Michael LonsdaleCommissioner Lucas
• Michel ConstantinCommissioner Campana alias Louis Lopez
• Mireille DarcChristine alias Françoise
• Robert DalbanCommissioner Chauvet, Superintendent in Nice
• Daniel IvernelLigmann
• Venantino VenantiniFelice, killer
• Hervé HillienBertrand, Christine's son
• Henri GuybetPJ inspector
• Robert CastelRodriguez, Manoni's man
• Giuliano EsperantiSecond killer
• Jean-Jacques MoreauPJ inspector
• Charles SouthwoodNarcotic Bureau agent

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