There Once Was a Cop

There Once Was a Cop

95 mins | Crime, Comedy | Feb. 11, 1972

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.

There Once Was a Cop

95 mins | Crime, Comedy | Feb. 11, 1972

There Once Was a Cop
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.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Rizzoli Films, Gaumont International
Original title Il était une fois un flic...
Directors Georges Lautner
Writers Richard Caron, Francis Veber, Georges Lautner

Cast

Michael Lonsdale

as Le commissaire Lucas

Michel Constantin

as Le commissaire Campana

Mireille Darc

as Christine

Robert Dalban

as Le commissaire Chauvet

Daniel Ivernel

as Ligmann

Hervé Hillien

as Bertrand

Henri Guybet

as un inspecteur de la PJ

Robert Castel

as Rodriguez

Jean-Jacques Moreau

as un inspecteur de la PJ

Charles Southwood

as un agent du Bureau des Narcotiques, le BNDD

Jean Luisi

as le second chauffeur de taxi

Fransined

as le premier chauffeur de taxi

Henri Cogan

as Jeannot

Phyllis Major

as Marianne Halifax

Alain Delon

as L'homme qui cherche Rodriguez (uncredited)