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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964)

Comedy | 90 minutes
3,11 523 votes

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 90 minuten

Alternative titles: Le Gendarme de St. Tropez / De Gendarme van Saint-Tropez / The Gendarme of St. Tropez

Country: France / Italy

Directed by: Jean Girault

Stars: Louis de Funès, Geneviève Grad and Michel Galabru

IMDb score: 7,1 (14.553)

Releasedate: 8 September 1964

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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez plot

The gendarme Ludovic Cruchot has been transferred to Saint-Tropez and has decided that it will be dusty! Despite the efforts of his colleagues to learn to take everything 'southern', and those of naturists to ridicule him, it literally 'blisters'. And rules are rules. Until the day when Nicole, Ludovic's lovely daughter, pretends to have a rich father, the owner of a splendid chariot and a yacht, in order to bluff the rich youngsters, and with a, by her friend Jean-Luc stolen car ends up in a ditch...

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Actors and actresses

Ludovic Cruchot

Nicole Cruchot

Jérôme Gerber

Émilie Lareine-Leroy

André-Hugues Boiselier

Woman on holiday

Henchman of Mr. Harpers

Albert Merlot

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Dievegge

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Louis de Funès was known for his crazy pelvis and tantrums. He was sometimes called the last clown. His Cruchot suffers from a Napoleon complex; he tries to compensate for his limited height with a straight back and authoritarian behavior. This authority and his excessive zeal are regularly ridiculed, for example when he tries to write down a car license plate while handcuffed to a poacher. The gendarme barks at his subordinates and licks the heels of his superiors. His life goal is to be promoted to the highest possible rank. At the end he daydreams that he has become a general.

It starts in a Catholic Alpine village in black and white. The contrast with Saint-Tropez in color is great. They have a freer mentality and wear shorter clothes, or no clothes at all ("Vos papiers!"). His daughter (Geneviève Grad) rebels and wants to be popular in the fashionable seaside resort. Her lies start the intrigue. First she is called "boudin": literally "sausage", but translated as "bitch". Michel Galabru, as adjutant, will become more important in the following parts. Returning in each part is also the dangerously driving nun Clotilde (France Rumilly), who brings the necessary flair.

The music of Raymond Lefebvre uses a marching rhythm that belongs to the discipline of the gendarmerie, but also the sunny mentality of the South and the swinging sixties. He represents a kind of humor from a bygone era, but with a little empathy it's still enjoyable.

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Bobbejaantje

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Blissful comedy. The plot in Saint-Tropez, where the sky is as blue as the water, is to be taken as seriously as the character of Louis de Funès. The funniest scenes are the one in which the corps chases the nudists, next to the presence of 'millionaire' De Funès at his rich friend's party, and the chase in the Ford Mustang. Finely portrayed by director Jean Girault. In my opinion, the only time the production fails is a supposedly nighttime scene (the theft of the Ford Mustang) that is filmed in full daylight. A bit incomprehensible, but it doesn't detract from the viewing pleasure. The tone of humor is always light and sometimes even absurd. Also a nice find to start the already nice prologue in black and white and switch to color when the story really starts in Saint-Tropez.

An unpretentious film that makes you forget the world around you for a while. The bubblegum pop tune Douliou-douliou Saint-Tropez by Raymond Lefebvre stayed in my head afterwards, one that reflects the zeitgeist very well.

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Lemmens1985

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Gendarme of Saint Tropez was the first movie I ever saw with Louis de Funes but definitely not the last :-P

The French humor, storyline everything about this film is just laughter.

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