The Gendarme Takes Off

The Gendarme Takes Off

1970 · 90 min · FR · 6.3 (569 votes)
Dir. Jean Girault · Starring Louis de Funès, Jean Lefebvre, Guy Grosso, Michel Modo, Nicole Vervil, France Rumilly · Music Raymond Lefèvre · Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez Collection
Comedy

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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A riotous, nostalgic romp through memory lane. This film feels like a warm, chaotic reunion of old friends, trading their police uniforms for a wild, anachronistic adventure that's pure, unadulterated fun.

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