Let Sleeping Cops Lie: Difference between revisions

| name = Let Sleeping Cops Lie<br>Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort

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| writerproducer = [[Frédéric H. Fajardie]] (novel)<br> = Alain Delon<br />José[[Jacques PinheiroBar]]

| cinematographystarring = Alain Delon<br>[[RaoulMichel CoutardSerrault]]

| studio = TF1 Films Production<br>Leda Productions<br>Cité Films

| released = 14 December = {{Film date|df=y|1988|12|14}}

| country = [[France]]

| language = French

'''''Let Sleeping Cops Lie''''' also known as '''''Don't Wake a Sleeping Cop''''' ({{lang-fr[[French language|French]]: '''''Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort'''''}}) is a [[France|French]] [[crime film]] released in [[1988 in cinema|1988]], directed by [[José Pinheiro (director)|José Pinheiro]], starring [[Alain Delon]] and [[Michel Serrault]]. The screenplay is written by Alain Delon and José Pinheiro based on the novel „''Clause de style''“ by [[Frédéric H. Fajardie]].

„''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 film’s producer, dedicated the work to the memory of actor [[Jean Gabin]].<ref name="FDF">[http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Ne_reveillez_pas_un_flic_qui_dort_rev.html ''„LetLet Sleeping Cops Lie“Lie'' in „The"The French Films“Films"]</ref>

==SynopsisPlot==

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"Police devotion“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"Police devotion“devotion" go out of all bounds, the police chief Cazalières (Gérôme) assign a task to inspector Eugéne Grindel (Delon) to investigate the present circumstances.

*[[PhilippeRémy NahonKirch]] as SergeantGinzbaum

[[Category:FrenchFilms crimeproduced filmsby Alain Delon]]

[[Category:Neo-noirFrench crime thriller films]]

[[Category:VigilanteFilms filmsdirected by José Pinheiro]]