The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

1979 · 96 min · Original language: French

TMDB 6.1/10 · 687 votes

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.

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