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'Let Sleeping Cops Lie' also known as 'Don't Wake a Sleeping Cop' (French: 'Ne rveillez pas un flic qui dort') is a French crime film released in 1988, directed by Jos Pinheiro, starring Alain Delon and Michel Serrault. The screenplay is written by Alain Delon and Jos Pinheiro based on the novel 'Clause de style' by Frdric H. Fajardie.

The movie tells the story of police inspector Eugne Grindel (Delon) who investigates the secret illegal ultra-right police organization which mete out justice on a fast track.

'Let Sleeping Cops Lie' is the last film of a group of popular movies released in the 1980s and starring Alain Delon, which share a visual and narrative style, beginning with Jacques Deray's 'Three Men to Kill' (1980). It was the least successfully commercially.

Alain Delon, also being the films producer, dedicated the work to the memory of actor Jean Gabin.[http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Ne_reveillez_pas_un_flic_qui_dort_rev.html 'Let Sleeping Cops Lie' in "The French Films"]

Plot



Roger Scatti (Serrault) is a conservative police inspector of the old school. He finds intolerable the liberalization of the justice system. More and more people from the underground world slip away from the justice. Finding allies in the police circles, he founded the ultra-right secret illegal organization called "Police devotion". Its purpose is the immediate punishment, usually death, of the notorious criminals, with no trials or whatever inquiries and no bureaucracy. The activities of the organization are particularly brutal, serving for edification to the public. When the punitive operations of the "Police devotion" go out of all bounds, the police chief Cazalires (Grme) assign a task to inspector Eugne Grindel (Delon) to investigate the present circumstances.

Cast



*Alain Delon as a police inspector Eugne Grindel

*Michel Serrault as a police inspector Roger Scatti

*Xavier Deluc as Lutz

*Patrick Catalifo as Pret, Grindel's assistant

*Raymond Grme as a chief inspector Cazalires

*Serge Reggiani as Le Stphanois

*Bernard Farcy as Inspector Latueva

*Fodor Atkine as Stadler

*Roxan Gould as Jennifer

*Stphane Jobert as Spiero

*Consuelo De Haviland as Corinne

*Dominique Valera as Valles

*Bruno Raffaelli as Zelleim

*Guy Cuevas as Bessoni

*Rmy Kirch as Ginzbaum

*Olivier Marchal as Ginzbaum's friend

*Philippe Nahon as Sergeant #2

*Laurent Gamelon as The Baby's Man

References




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