Le gendarme en balade
- Louis de Funès: Ludovic Cruchot
- Michel Galabru Jérôme Gerber
- Jean Lefebvre: Lucien Fougasse
- Christian Marin: Albert Merlot
- Claude Gensac: Josépha Cruchot
- Guy Grosso: Tricard
- Michel Modo: Berlicot
- Nicole Vervil: Germaine Gerber
- France Rumilly: Sister Clotilde
- Sara Franchetti: Sister Marie- Bénédicte
- Yves Vincent: Colonel of Gandarmerie
Baldwin, the terror of Saint- Tropez ( original title: Le Gendarme en balade ) is a French comedy film from 1970 with Louis de Funès. The film was shown in France on October 28, 1970 for the first time. In Germany it was released in theaters on April 10, 1971.
Action
Gendarme Ludovic Cruchot will retire with his men because of insufficient motivation by the Ministry prematurely. They are replaced by younger colleagues. After six months of boredom Cruchot receives from his former superior Gerber and his wife visit. A little later, another ex-colleague of Ludovic comes to visit and tells the two that Fougasse, also a member of the brigade, his memory was lost. The three ex- policemen abduct using the remaining two colleagues, the deranged Fougasse from his home. Secretly draw the five gendarmes her uniform back on to help fougasses memory on the jumps, with them the new, younger brigade constantly gets in the way.
After prolonged turbulence admits Fougasse to have faked his lost memory, as it had pleased him so well in the home. After a little brawl at the beginning to reconcile the six gendarmes. But the peace lasts only until they realize that a group of nudists has their car stolen, in which their civilian clothing is. Then they draw camouflaged as hippies around the country and get into a hippie meeting, where they will be confronted with drugs. Meanwhile, shares the new, younger cast members of the gendarmerie with the women of Gerber and Cruchot that the ex - police were caught with nudists, and the two decide to get back at their husbands.
The brigade is now escape the hippies and now struggles to walk back to St. Tropez. Cruchot Gerber and keep up with the telescope out. By chance, they discover their wives with two other men, but they 're talking to a to have been wrong. The hippies finally decide to surrender to the new gendarmes. But suddenly appear Sister Clotilde and takes the supposed gendarmes in their monastery. There, she tells them that she had become mother superior, a vacation colony derive and had been lost three of their protégés. Since she knows nothing of their retirement, she asks the police, the three seek and bring back to the colony. But these are just going to build a rocket with dangerous explosives that threatens to blow up the entire area in the air. Despite a lengthy procedure it is not possible to defuse the "bomb", and suddenly plunge the women of Cruchot and Gerber. Angry destroy the gendarmes the rocket and face their wives. Ultimately, everything takes a good end: Cruchot and Gerber reconcile with their wives and the early retirees are rehired. In addition, a parade takes place.
Comments
- In the German dubbed version Ludovic Cruchot is also called " Baldwin " because of the German title.
- In the scene in which Josepha her husband asks her to get into the car, she calls him by his French name " Ludovic " and not with " Baldwin ".
- The supposed bomb in the nose cone is a miniature replica of the Soviet Sputnik 1
Criticism
" Turbulent Louis de Funès - comedy with some pretty and witty ideas. "