Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez Collection

The Gendarme collection is a series of six French comic films created by Jean Girault and Richard Balducci. The stories center on Ludovic Cruchot, a sergeant in the gendarmerie, and the daily life of his police troop in Saint-Tropez, a well-known seaside town on the French Riviera. Released over an eighteen-year period, from 1964 to 1982, the films collectively run for 560 minutes. The collection comprises six installments, with the first film, Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964), having a runtime of 89 minutes. The series concluded with Le Gendarme et les Gendarmettes in 1982, which has a runtime of 100 minutes. The total budget and revenue for the entire collection are not specified. The films within the collection offer comedic scenarios revolving around the everyday duties and often humorous situations encountered by the gendarmerie in Saint-Tropez. The series spans a total of 560 minutes across its six films.