

There Once Was a Cop
1972-02-11 · 95 min · ★ 6.1
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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- Directors
- Georges Lautner
- Production companies
- Gaumont International, Rizzoli Film
- Countries
- France
- Status
- Released
Top 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
Dado CrostarosaOne of the two young Portuguese
Jean LuisiSecond taxi driver
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