Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez
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| Directed by | Jean Girault |
| Produced by | SNC Franca Films |
| Written by |
Richard Balducci Jean Girault Jacques Vilfrid |
| Starring |
Louis de Funès Geneviève Grad Michel Galabru Jean Lefebvre Christian Marin |
| Music by | Raymond Lefèvre |
| Distributed by | SNC |
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95 minutes |
| Country | France Italy |
| Language | French |
| Box office | 7,809,517 admissions (France) |
The Troops of St. Tropez (French: Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez; literally The Policeman from Saint-Tropez) is a 1964 French comedy film with Louis de Funès. The film mostly takes place in Saint-Tropez, a fashionable resort on the French Riviera. Louis de Funès plays Ludovic Cruchot, the sergeant of gendarmerie of Saint-Tropez. It is the first film in The gendarme series, and has spawned five sequels.
Ludovic Cruchot (played by Louis de Funès), a gendarme in a small French village, has been re-assigned to the seaside commune of Saint-Tropez under the orders of command sergeant major Gerber (played by Michel Galabru).
Soon, the gendarmes find themselves confronted with a major problem: a group of persistent nudists. Cruchot manages to hatch a master plan and succeeds in getting the nude swimmers arrested.
Later, Cruchot discovers that his daughter and her boyfriend have stolen and crashed an expensive Mustang sports car into a ditch. Unbeknownst to any of them, the car belongs to a gang of robbers who have stolen a Rembrandt painting, which is still in the trunk. Cruchot manages to get the car out, but realizes that the objects he threw out of the car to fix a puncture, including the painting, are valuable items.
The man who pretends to own the painting then kidnaps Cruchot.
Finally, Cruchot's daughter and her friends knock out the group that kidnapped her father, and the painting is returned to its rightful owner.
The film was the most popular movie at the French box office in 1964.
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