Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez

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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
Release date(s) September 9, 1964
Running time 95 min.
Country Flag of France France, Flag of Italy Italy
Language French
Followed by Le gendarme à New York
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Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez is a French comedy film with Louis de Funès. The film mostly takes place in Saint-Tropez, a French commune. 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. The title translates to The gendarme from Saint-Tropez.

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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 to 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 the latter's boyfriend have stolen and crashed an expensive sports car into a ditch. Cruchot manages to get the car out, but realizes that the objects he threw out of the car, among which a famous 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.

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