Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres (1979, France)

Another in the supremely successful series of Louis de Funès films about the bungling gendarmerie of St Tropez.

A flying saucer lands nearby, with friendly intentions, but when the local police reject these efforts, the aliens take on human form to try to secure their objective. This includes exactly reproducing the appearance of some of the gendarmes.

Louis de Funès plays the inept police sergeant, and he is here trying to escape from his boss, whom he believes is actually an alien. He gets a lift from a friendly sister at the nearby convent. When the boss turns up there as well, de Funès realises that the only escape is to put on a spare set of the nuns' clothing and try to brazen it out. Inevitably however he gets caught up in a choral event for the bishop who is on a visit. In the picture de Funès is on the right.

HF September 2003

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