Il Etait une Fois un Flic (1972, FRA/ITA) C-100m. ** D: Georges Lautner. Starring Michel Constantin, Michael Lonsdale, Daniel Ivernel, Mireille Darc, Venantino Venantini, Robert Dalban, Charles Southwood, Robert Castel, Alain Delon. Constantin plays an undercover cop, who is assigned to bust drug smuggling syndicate by impersonating a dead dealer's brother. Darc has to play his wife. Crime movie with humorous undertones sparks very little interest, despite being cowritten by Francis Veber and the director (adapting a novel by Richard Caron). The cast is quite good, though. Also known as FLIC STORY, THERE WAS ONCE A COP.