The Cop (French: Un condé, Italian: L'uomo venuto da Chicago) is a 1970 French-Italian crime film directed by Yves Boisset that stars Michel Bouquet and Françoise Fabian.

[2] With considerable moral ambiguity, it tells the story of a committed policeman in a crooked force who concludes that the only way to avenge the murder of a colleague by criminals is to use their own weapons of beatings and shootings.

The two start investigating the murder of Dassa, a bar owner who refused to let his premises be used for distributing the drugs of Tavernier, the local crime lord who is protected by police and politicians.

When Dassa's sister arrives to settle his affairs, the goons who murdered her brother beat her up and wreck the bar.

After this trail of beatings and deaths, Favenin is again suspended and, sending his wife away to safety, stays alone in his riverside home.