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Jean Girault has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1980s.
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A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Claude Gensac, Michel Galabru

The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Geneviève Grad, Michel Galabru
Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe’s host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France. However, Philippe has already decided to spend the summer holidays on a yacht with his friends, so he sends a fellow student, Michonnet, to England in his place. The deception is soon discovered but things go from bad to worse when Philippe and Shirley fall in love and fly to Scotland to get married...
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Ferdy Mayne, Martine Kelly
Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Mireille Darc, Roger Dumas

The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending driver, who turns out to be Josépha (Claude Gensac), the widow of a highly regarded police colonel. When they meet, Cruchot falls instantly in love....
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Jean Lefebvre, Geneviève Grad
Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his banker's recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself shamelessly robbed by the bank; it seems only fair to him to return the 'favor' and rob the bank, teaming up with the whole family as they were all duped. Even for professionals such an enterprise -he decides to dig a tunnel- is quite demanding, but for simple commoners it's daunting, as they also have their personal downsides; thus Victor's wife has a most unwelcome tendency to blurt out the truth, even to the grumpy local copper: a crazy risk when you need to keep a criminal plan secret.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Yvonne Clech

Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret

The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Jean Lefebvre, Guy Grosso

Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Christian Marin

The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven’t spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. Based on Molière’s play.
Dir. Louis de Funès, Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Claude Gensac

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.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch

Director · Writer
Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.
Dir. Tony Aboyantz, Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch