

There Once Was a Cop
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.
Cast

Michael Lonsdale
Commissioner Lucas

Michel Constantin
Commissioner Campana alias Louis Lopez

Mireille Darc
Christine alias Françoise

Robert Dalban
Commissioner Chauvet, Superintendent in Nice

Daniel Ivernel
Ligmann

Venantino Venantini
Felice, killer

Hervé Hillien
Bertrand, Christine's son

Henri Guybet
PJ inspector

Robert Castel
Rodriguez, Manoni's man

Giuliano Esperanti
Second killer

Jean-Jacques Moreau
PJ inspector

Charles Southwood
Narcotic Bureau agent

Dado Crostarosa
One of the two young Portuguese

Jean Luisi
Second taxi driver

Fransined
First taxi driver
Storyline
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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