Cop or Hood

Cop or Hood
Jean Herman
Based on	L'Inspecteur de la mer by Michel Grisolia
Starring	Jean-Paul Belmondo Marie Laforêt Michel Galabru Georges Géret Jean-François Balmer
Cinematography	Henri Decaë
Music by	Philippe Sarde
Distributed by	Gaumont Distribution
Release date	28 March 1979 (1979-03-28)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$2.3 million
Box office	$29.6 million[1]

Cop or Hood (French: Flic ou voyou) is a 1979 French crime and action film directed by Georges Lautner. It's loosely based on the novel L'Inspecteur de la mer by Michel Grisolia.

Stanislas Borowitz is a divisional commissioner from the IGPN (

and enquire on a murder of a notoriously corrupt commissioner, he changes his identity into a thug named Antonio Cerruti to trigger a gang war between the two biggest local sponsors, Théodore Musard ("l'Auvergnat") and Achille Volfoni ("le Corse"), and discovers a police organization with the mafia of the town. But the corrupt police inspectors Rey and Massard, on the pay of Volfoni, absolutely want to harm him.

• Jean-Paul Belmondo ... Antonio Cerutti (aka the divisional commissioner Stanislas Borowitz)
• Georges Géret ... Théodore Musard ("l'Auvergnat")
• Marie Laforêt ... Edmonde Puget-Rostand
• Jean-François Balmer ... Inspecteur Massard
• Claude Brosset [fr] ... Achille Volfoni ("le Corse")
• Julie Jézéquel ... Charlotte
• Michel Beaune ... Marcel Langlois
• Tony Kendall ... Rey
• Catherine Lachens ... Simone Langlois
• Juliette Mills
  ... Madame Bertrand
• Venantino Venantini ... Mario
• Charles Gérard ... Cazauban
• Michel Galabru ... Commissaire Grimaud
• Philippe Castelli ... driving school inspector
• Marc Lamole [fr] ... substitute
• Michel Peyrelon [fr] ... Camille
• Nicolas Vogel ... Marcel Gaston

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