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The Gendarme Takes Off

The Gendarme Takes Off

Comedy · 1970

The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.

Movie details

The Gendarme Takes Off

1970 Comedy 1h 30m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.5 / 10

7.9K votes

TMDB

6.3 / 10

Community rating

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The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.

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Names above the title

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Directed by

Jean Girault

Written by

Jacques Vilfrid · Jean Girault · Richard Balducci

Louis de Funès

Louis de Funès

Ludovic Cruchot

Jean Lefebvre

Jean Lefebvre

Lucien Fougasse

Guy Grosso

Guy Grosso

Gaston Tricard

Michel Modo

Michel Modo

Jules Berlicot

Nicole Vervil

Nicole Vervil

Cécilia Gerber

France Rumilly

France Rumilly

Schwester Clothilde

Yves Vincent

Yves Vincent

Colonel

Court is in session

Put The Gendarme Takes Off on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.