Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

"Beguiling BATHING BEAUTIES will give you a load of laughs!"

1964 1h 29m FR

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★7.0TMDB · 961★7.1IMDB · 15,034

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Synopsis

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The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.

“Beguiling BATHING BEAUTIES will give you a load of laughs!”

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Cast

Louis de Funès
Ludovic Cruchot
Geneviève Grad
Nicole Cruchot
Michel Galabru
Jérôme Gerber
Daniel Cauchy
Richard
Maria Pacôme
Émilie Lareine-Leroy
Claude Piéplu
André-Hugues Boiselier
Madeleine Delavaivre
Woman on holiday
Gabriele Tinti
Henchman of Mr. Harpers

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jean Girault
Writers: Richard Balducci, Jacques Vilfrid, Jean Girault
Languages: French
Countries: France

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RUNTIME

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89 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.2M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Grossed $11M — a 45.5× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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62 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jean Girault, shot by Marc Fossard. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Raymond Lefèvre. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Jean-Michel Gautier shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Jean Girault directs. Marc Fossard behind the camera. Raymond Lefèvre scores. Jean-Michel Gautier cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in France. Dialogue in French.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

189 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Shot for just $0.2M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Grossed $11M — a 45.5× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
462 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
5Part of the "Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6Directed by Jean Girault, shot by Marc Fossard. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Raymond Lefèvre. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Jean-Michel Gautier shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Louis de Funès and Geneviève Grad and Michel Galabru carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Beguiling BATHING BEAUTIES will give you a load of laughs!".
11IMDB entry: tt0058135 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 13 themes, including "nun", "lie", "rembrandt", "gendarmerie".

The technical file

Cinematography: Marc Fossard
Original score: Raymond Lefèvre
Editing: Jean-Michel Gautier
Makeup / hair: Anatole Paris
Runtime: 89 min · 1h 29m
Status: Released
Budget: $230,769
Box office: $10,500,000
Return: 4550% of budget
Original language: FR
IMDB: Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964)
IMDB rating: 7.1/10 · 15,034 votes

Part of

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez Collection

The Gendarme collection is a series of French comic films created by Jean Girault and Richard Balducci, starring Louis de Funès as the protagonist Ludovic Cruchot, a sergeant of the gendarmerie. The story focuses on the every-day life of the police troop of Saint-Tropez - a fashionable seaside town located on the French Riviera. Six films were released in a period of eighteen years, starting in 1964.