Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres (1979)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Jean Girault

Writers:

Richard Balducci (characters)
Gérard Beytout (adaptation)

Release Date:

31 January 1979 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Sci-Fi

Plot:

The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens...

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Sun | Saint Tropez | Nun | UFO

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Louis de Funès	...	Maréchal des Logis-chef Ludovic Cruchot
Michel Galabru	...	Adjudant Jérôme Gerber
Maurice Risch	...	Maréchal des Logis Beaupied
Jean-Pierre Rambal	...	Maréchal des Logis Taupin
Guy Grosso	...	Maréchal des Logis Tricard
Michel Modo	...	Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
France Rumilly	...	Soeur Clotilde
Jean-Roger Caussimon	...	L'évêque
Mario David	...	Le voleur du bidon d'huile
Jacques François	...	Le colonel
Maria Mauban	...	Joséfa Cruchot
Madeleine Delavaivre	...	Soeur képi Gerber
Micheline Bourday	...	Mme Cécilia Gerber
Jacqueline Jefford	...	Soeur carrure rugbyman
René Berthier	...	Berthier, l'adjoint du colonel

Also Known As:

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (UK) (video title)

Runtime:

96 min | Spain:86 min (DVD edition)

Country:

France

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Netherlands:AL | West Germany:6 (nf) | Argentina:Atp | Norway:11 | Spain:T

Filming Locations:

Plage de Pampelonne, Var, France

Company:

Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC)

Trivia:

Visa d'exploitation en France : # 49700. Avec l'aimable autorisation de Paul Loup Sulitzer (Domaine de la Capella)

Movie Connections:

Followed by Le gendarme et les gendarmettes (1982)

Agreeable comedy about the likable gendarmes plenty of crazy humor

Botcher Cruchot encounter himself attempting save the people of Saint Tropez from an invasion of outer space humanoid aliens. As always appear customary gendarmes partners, Marechals(Michael Modo,Maurice Risch,Jean Pierre Rambal,Guy Grosso), chief adjutant Jerome(Michael Galabru), but no the sympathetic Jean Lefevre.When see an outer space saucer the Gendarmerie Nationale is revolutionized, Ludovic Cruchot(Louis De Funes) goes into in action, and he's secretly moving in disguise , dressing as a nun. The only way to discover the Extra-Terrestres from real human is which they feel deep thirst and take compulsively oil drinks; furthermore they sound like empty metallic cans when they punch them. Then, the highlights happen when the aliens impersonate as gendarmes and the events go wrong.

This is an amusing story, and pretty entertaining farce with the master comic Luis De Funes. Lively situations full of slapstick, slapdash and too much fun. The pic contains a light criticism to French police called Nationale Gendarmerie.Louis De Funes undertakes several adventures, overacting, as always, as he puts intense mocking faces, grimaces, tongue twister, and lots of mimic gesticulation. Claude Gensac, as habitual Ludovic Cruchot's spouse, she collaborated five films as wife, however this time doesn't appear, being substituted by Maria Mauban. Fine local photography with luminous sun under St. Tropez's blue sky. Lively and catching musical score by Raymond Lefevre includes usual leitmotif with musical background on habitual ending parade where the gendarmes are replaced by false aliens. However packs a cheesy and ridiculous special effects referred on the flying saucer. The movie is ingeniously written and directed by ordinary director series, Jean Girault. If you like Funes' nutty acting, you'll like this one.

Another movies about our intimate gendarmes are the following. ¨Gendarme of St. Tropez, Gendarme get marries, Gendarme at New York, Gendarme takes off, and the last acting of the great Louis De Funes, an authentic farceur: ¨Gendarme and the Gendarmettes¨.