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The Defective Detective (1984)

The Defective Detective (1984)

Comedy

Before they flunked the Police Academy. Before Eddie Murphy heard of Beverly Hills . . . there was the DEFECTIVE DETECTIVE!

Release Date: 1984, January 11
Directors: Michel Gérard
Countries: France
Production: Coline, Coline, Imacité, TF1 Films Production, Imacité, Gaumont, TF1 Films Production, Productions Marcel Dassault, Gaumont, Productions Marcel Dassault
Cast: Michel Blanc, Maurice Risch, Dominique Zardi, Max Montavon, Laura Betti, Jerry Lewis, Michel Peyrelon, Mylène Demongeot, Charlotte de Turckheim, Roger Carel, Philippe Castelli, Jackie Sardou

Overview:

Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has remarried and her husband is undercover among the art thieves, carrying out an assignment given him by his superiors in the police force. Inevitably, the current husband and the ex-husband are bound to clash.