The Gendarme Takes Off (1970)

Movie
Audience Score
64
The Gendarme Takes Off
NR 1 hr 30 minNov 11th, 1970ComedyLe Gendarme de Saint-Tropez Collection PosterPart of Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez Collection
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.
StarringLouis de FunèsJean LefebvreGuy Grosso
DirectorJean Girault

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:November 11th, 1970
Original Language:French
Production Companies:SNC
Movie Tags:
amnesianostalgiahippiechaosretirementrocketgeneration gapparis suburbretireecolleague

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez Collection

The Gendarme colelction is a series of French comic films created by Jean Girault and Richard Balducci, starring Louis de Funès as the protagonist Ludovic Cruchot, a sergeant of the gendarmerie. The story focuses on the every-day life of the police troop of Saint-Tropez - a fashionable seaside town located on the French Riviera. Six films were released in a period of eighteen years, starting in 1964.