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Le Gendarme et les Extra-Terrestres (1979)

Comedy | 96 minutes
2,67 326 votes

Genre: Comedy / Scifi

Duration: 96 minuten

Alternative title: De Gendarme Ziet Ze Vliegen

Country: France

Directed by: Jean Girault

Stars: Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru and

IMDb score: 6,3 (10.286)

Releasedate: 31 January 1979

Le Gendarme et les Extra-Terrestres plot

Nobody believes cop Beaupied. His story is therefore remarkable. He claims to have seen a UFO. Adjutant Cruchot threatens to transfer him if he doesn't stop selling that nonsense immediately. The case is closed, but a few days later an alien appears in Beaupied's desk, announcing that he and his ilk have chosen Saint-Tropez as their home base. Beaupied sees his chance to be promoted and decides to capture the creature...

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Full Cast & Crew

Actors and actresses

Ludovic Cruchot

Jérôme Gerber

Henri Beaupied

Charles Taupin

Gaston Tricard

Jules Berlicot

Schwester Clotilde

Der Dieb der Ölkanne

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Despite it being one of the least gerdarme films, it's still really youthful for me. Especially because we used to often go on holiday to the South of France.

I can imagine that the current generation has less with these kinds of films.

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knusse stoel

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Nice nonsense and just like with André van Duin, one is in a dent and the other is looking ahead, waiting for something nice. With Louis I have found the middle way, I find almost all his films funny, but also a bit too transparent and bland. And yet I watch every film I see of him, from start to finish.

Even as a lover of British humor and "Creditors, Debtors", I can appreciate this.

Louis has a charm and a cuddly factor of a mean Dachshund who prefers to leave the prints of his teeth in your behind!

A spacious 7!

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Bobbejaantje

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The fifth in the series with Louis de Funès and in my opinion a topper. This time we are served a combination of comedy and science-fiction on our (flying) saucer. Made in 1979, this film is clearly influenced by Close Encounters of The Third Kind and Body Snatcher states. I saw the film itself once on TV in the 1980s and it was a happy reunion. I just really like him.

At first a bit of a shame that not much of the original cast of gendarmes remains, but because the scenario is so good, you just get over it. Have messed with the gags and states several times, as well as enjoyed the Raymond Lefevre soundtrack. Besides the brass band part, we can enjoy bits à al Jean-Michel Jarre (when the aliens arrive) and seventies funk (on the beach).

In the first half of the film there is a lot to do about product placement, probably a parody of what was then taking place in visual culture, although so many years later it is not really clear to me where the wind was blowing then. The special fx are sometimes well done and at times very clumsy. But that doesn't matter, as long as you're willing to go along with the craziness of the story. And that is a condition for me in any case to start such films. Nothing high in this film, but a lot of fun was had and that is an element for me with which a film can score high.

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