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Il était une fois un flic (1971)
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16 July 1972 (Sweden)
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Michel Constantin | ... | Le commissaire Campana | |
| Michael Lonsdale | ... | Le commissaire Lucas (as Michel Lonsdale) | |
| Daniel Ivernel | ... | Ligmann | |
| Mireille Darc | ... | Christine | |
| Venantino Venantini | ... | Felice | |
| Giuliano Esperanti | (as Giuliano Disperati) | ||
| Hervé Hillien | ... | Bertrand | |
| Robert Dalban | ... | Le commissaire Chauvet / Superintendent in Nice | |
| Henri Guybet | ... | Un inspecteur | |
| Phyllis Major | ... | Marianne Halifax | |
| Jean-Jacques Moreau | |||
| Charles Southwood | |||
| Robert Castel | ... | Rodriguez | |
| Dado Crostarosa | |||
| Jean Luisi | ... | Le 2ème chauffeur de taxi |
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C'era una volta un commissario... (Italy)
Flic Story (UK)
There Was Once a Cop (International: English title)
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Flic Story (UK)
There Was Once a Cop (International: English title)
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Hungary:95 min
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This movie is a mixture between gangster movie and comedy. Georges Lautner created a typical french comedy with quite a good portion of violence, drugs, sex and sarcasm.
Michel Constantin plays Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police. He 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.
Constantin played Campana very cool, a silent hero that struggles against the police in Nice, the Nice mafia clan, the American killers and American police from the Bureau against Narcotics and dangerous Drugs (BND). There are a lot of sarcastic elements that bases on the French - American "friendship" - very funny for all Europeans.
All in all a great movie to have fun and a good time. Set in scene perfectly by Lautner.