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There Once Was a Cop

6.1 95 mins Crime   Comedy   1972
Gaumont International   Rizzoli Film  
Director(s): Georges Lautner

Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.

Casts of There Once Was a Cop

Michael Lonsdale

as Commissioner Lucas

Michel Constantin

as Commissioner Campana alias Louis Lopez

Mireille Darc

as Christine alias Françoise

Robert Dalban

as Commissioner Chauvet, Superintendent in Nice

Daniel Ivernel

as Ligmann

Venantino Venantini

as Felice, killer

Hervé Hillien

as Bertrand, Christine's son

Henri Guybet

as PJ inspector

Robert Castel

as Rodriguez, Manoni's man

Giuliano Esperanti

as Second killer

Jean-Jacques Moreau

as PJ inspector

Charles Southwood

as Narcotic Bureau agent

Dado Crostarosa

as One of the two young Portuguese

Jean Luisi

as Second taxi driver

Fransined

as First taxi driver

Phyllis Major

as Marianne Halifax

Ghislain Oyac

as Manoni's secretary

Daniel Auguste

as Policeman

Charly Bertoni

as Narcotic Bureau agent

Henri Cogan

as Jeannot, Manoni's man (uncredited)

Alain Delon

as Man looking for Rodriguez (uncredited)

Pier Paolo Capponi

as Ugo (uncredited)

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