The Broadway policeman

Movie
German title	The Broadway policeman
Original title	Le gendarme à New York
Country of production	France , Italy
original language	French
Publishing year	1965
length	98 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Jean Girault
script	Jean Girault Jacques Vilfrid
production	Alain Darbon Paul Laffargue
music	Raymond Lefèvre Paul Mauriat
camera	Edmond Séchan
cut	Albert Jurgenson
occupation
Louis de Funès : Ludovic Cruchot Michel Galabru : Jérome Gerber Christian Marin : Albert Merlot Guy Grosso : Tricard Michel Modo : Berlicot Jean Lefebvre : Lucien Fougasse Alan Scott : Franck Geneviève Grad : Nicole Cruchot France Rumilly : Sister Clotilde
chronology
←  Predecessor The gendarme of Saint Tropez Successor  → Balduin, the grouchy marriage

The Gendarme from Broadway (original title: Le Gendarme à New York ) is a French comedy film from 1965 by director Jean Girault and with actor and comedian Louis de Funès . It is the second of a total of six films about gendarmes from Saint-Tropez . The action takes place mainly in New York . The German theatrical release was on June 9, 1967. The film was also shown in German-speaking countries under the titles So ein Gendarme has it hard and Louis in the land of unlimited possibilities and in the GDR as The Gendarme in New York .

action

Gendarme Ludovic Cruchot from Saint Tropez, played by Louis de Funès, receives an invitation to take part in an international police congress with his men in New York. On the ship (the French France ) with which they travel to the USA, Nicole, Cruchot's daughter, is also hiding as a stowaway. Shortly after arriving, Nicole is discovered and interrogated by the American police. With the help of a journalist who wants to put her "fate as an orphan" on television, she is released without penalty.

Cruchot has now also reached New York. When the French police delegation set off for a television interview, Cruchot saw his daughter on a screen during a television appearance. Now he tries to find his daughter again without his colleagues noticing that his daughter has made her way to New York without his knowledge, since his credibility as an authoritarian father and policeman is at stake.

Reviews

• “Slapstick film in which the comic talent of Louis de Funès tries to compensate for the unimaginative nature of the plot.” - Lexicon of international film

• "Slapstick that gets on its toes due to the behavior of the French provincial gendarmes in the USA." (Rating: 2½ out of 4 possible stars = above average) - Lexicon "Films on TV"

• “Little action, moderately comical comedy film. A few nice gags and Louis de Funès' in the 'Fantomas' and in the' Gendarm 'films try out faxing a puppet in police uniform do not prove to be full-length. ” - Protestant film observer

Gendarme film series

The film is part of a six-part series of films about the gendarme Ludovic Cruchot. The titles are:

• 1964: The gendarme of Saint Tropez
• 1965: The Broadway gendarme
• 1968: Baldwin, the grouchy marriage
• 1970: Baldwin, the horror of Saint-Tropez
• 1979: Louis' eerie encounter with the aliens
• 1982: Louis and his crazy policewomen

Web links

• Gendarme in New York in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Lexicon of International Films" (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997
2. ↑ The gendarme from Broadway. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
3. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , pp. 293-294
4. ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 244/1967