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The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979)

Film · 1979 · 96 min · Comedy · Science Fiction

The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.

Directed by Jean Girault

Starring Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch, Jean-Pierre Rambal, Guy Grosso, Michel Modo, France Rumilly, Jean-Roger Caussimon

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In cinemas11 November 1979
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First release anywhere31 January 1979

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