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The French Connection

Cast

Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco View All


Crew

Ernest Tidyman (Screenplay), William Friedkin (Director) View All

Release: Oct. 9th, 1971
Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
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0 Question about the plot to The French Connection (1971).
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5 In the "French Connection"...
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4 French Version of Old Moulin Rouge/French Cabaret Movie
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TheUsualSuspect
The result is indeed, one of the best car chase sequences put to film.
Jack1
To the characters themselves, and I found Hackman's Jimmy Doyle to be a fairly unmemorable character, certainly not a patch on Clint Eastwood's Harry Callahan character from the Dirty Harry films - just my opinion, though, and I'm sure some will disagree with that.
Iroquois
The legendary car chase is still one of the best action scenes of the 1970s, but everything else...well, that's kind of the curse of being such an influential and acclaimed movie.
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