The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

Here we have a film that perhaps only France could produce. A bumbling police inspector must protect the residents of St. Tropez from humanoid aliens with a taste for petroleum. The aliens are detectable by the garbage-can sound they make when touched. It's a French farce, and it knows it.

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Jean Girault directed The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space in 1979. See Jean Girault's full filmography, where to start with Jean Girault, or where to go after you've seen everything by Jean Girault.

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space was released in 1979 (FR original-language production), with a runtime of 96 minutes.