There Once Was a Cop

6.0 (49 votes)• 1972• 95m•Released

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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.

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Languages: French, Italian

Director: Georges Lautner

Starring Cast: Michael Lonsdale, Michel Constantin, Mireille Darc, Robert Dalban, Daniel Ivernel, Venantino Venantini

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