The Defective Detective

Name: The Defective Detective
Director: Michel Gérard
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1984-01-11
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 7.25
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Michel Blanc, Charlotte de Turckheim, Michel Peyrelon, Gérard Hérold

Original title: Retenez-moi... ou je fais un malheur !

“Before they flunked the Police Academy. Before Eddie Murphy heard of Beverly Hills . . . there was the DEFECTIVE DETECTIVE!”

7.3(2)19841h 26mFR

Directed by Michel Gérard

Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has remarried and her husband is undercover among the art thieves, carrying out an assignment given him by his superiors in the police force. Inevitably, the current husband and the ex-husband are bound to clash.