The Troops of St Tropez
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Music director Raymond Lefevre | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Crime Duration Country FranceItaly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 9 September 1964 (1964-09-09) Initial release September 9, 1964 (France) Screenplay Jean Girault, Jacques Vilfrid Cast (Ludovic Cruchot), (Nicole Cruchot), (Jérôme Gerber), (Albert Merlot), (Logis Berlicot), (Tricard) Similar movies The Gendarme Gets Married , The Gendarme in New York , The Gendarme Takes Off , The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space , The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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Plot
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. Unbeknown 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.
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Reception
The film was the most popular movie at the French box office in 1964.
References
The Troops of St. Tropez WikipediaThe Troops of St. Tropez IMDb The Troops of St. Tropez themoviedb.org