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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5039036017619
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 179411
Theatrical Release Date: October 09, 1971
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William Friedkin's classic policier was propelled to box-office glory, and a fistful of Oscars, in 1972 by its pedal-to-the-metal filmmaking and fashionably cynical attitude toward law enforcement. Gene Hackman's Popeye Doyle, a brutally pushy New York City narcotics detective, is a dauntless crime fighter and Vietnam-era "pig," a reckless vulgarian whose antics get innocent people killed. Loosely based upon an actual investigation that led to what was then the biggest heroin seizure in U.S. history, the picture traces the efforts of Doyle and his partner (Roy Scheider) to close the pipeline pumping Middle Eastern smack into the States through the French port of Marseilles. (The actual French Connection cops, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, make cameo appearances.) It was widely recognized at the time that Friedkin had lifted a lot of his high-strung technique from the Costa-Gavras thrillers The Sleeping Car Murders and Z--he even imported one of Costa-Gavras's favorite thugs, Marcel Bozzuffi, to play the Euro-trash hit man plugged by Doyle in an elevated train station. There was an impressive official sequel in 1975, French Connection II, directed by John Frankenheimer, which took Popeye to the south of France and got him hooked on horse. A couple of semi-official spinoffs followed, The Seven-Ups, which elevated Scheider to the leading role, and Badge 373, with Robert Duvall stepping in as the pugnacious flatfoot. --David Chute
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This had to be the most boring cop movie I've ever seen. Not only was it boring, but I found myself hoping the bad guys got away. The movie was basically about a racist, sadistic cop who spent the whole movie either beating innocent African Americans or chasing a drug dealing ring. No intersting dialogue at all. The only halfway good part was the car chase scene, but when Doyle almost hit a woman crossing the street, I lost interest in the dynamics because it was so thoughtless. Then, if you ... Read More
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"The French Connection," (1971) opens: we quickly see Brooklyn, New York, a few days before Christmas. It's brutal: we see a sidewalk Santa shivering at his Salvation Army bucket; a man freezing his touchas off as he works a hot dog cart. Suddenly we realize they're cops surveilling a dive of a bar, as they tear their costumes off and rush inside. So begins a nonstop action thriller, one of the greatest crime dramas/police procedurals of the 1970's; one of Hollywood's most celebrated golden eras. ... Read More
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The French connection is a superbly cast and directed film from the early 1970s. A hard as nails Gene Hackman cuts his way through all of the back alley dirt, and the facade of a police force gone dirtier on his way to busting one of the biggest heroin rings of all time. The film includes a gut wrenching car chase that rivals Steve McQueen's "Bullet". A must see film, I give it a solid two thumbs up!
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I have read the other reviews and think that most of the other reviewers are aging hippies that saw this movie in the '70s when it came out. The music was great and imaginative. The stake out scenes were too long.There was probably 30 minutes during stake outs that had maybe 4-5 pages of dialoge. Anyway the ending was typical of the time like "Billy Jack" or Easy Rider". Show the cops in a bad light and let the rotten drug dealer get away. I'm sure it appealed to teenagers back then, but not today where ... Read More
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The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971)
A quarter century after its release and Oscar win for Best Picture, there's renewed debate over whether William Friedkin's The French Connection is really all that and a bag of horse. And, to be fair, maybe there's a need for some historical context here.
1971 was a very, very good year for Ernest Tidyman; he was the singlehanded progenitor of two entire subgenres of film. First his novel Shaft was adapted for film, kicking off the ... Read More
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