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The French Connection
“Doyle is bad news—but a good cop.”
19711h 44mDir William Friedkin7.5TMDB
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.
Top Cast
21 total
Gene Hackman
as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
Roy Scheider
as Buddy Russo
Fernando Rey
as Alain Charnier
Tony Lo Bianco
as Sal Boca
Marcel Bozzuffi
as Pierre Nicoli
Frédéric de Pasquale
as Devereaux
Bill Hickman
as Mulderig
Ann Rebbot
as Marie Charnier
The scene we cut
The chase
Popeye Doyle under the el. No permits, no closed roads, one very real crash.
Friedkin shot much of the chase without permits on live streets in Brooklyn, with a stunt driver doing ninety miles an hour and Friedkin himself in the back with a camera. The crash with the white car was an accident with a resident who had driven out of a side street.
All the scenes we have cutOn Film Fanatics
Where The French Connection shows up.
If you like this
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Kiss of the Dragon
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French Connection II
1975
Killing Zoe
1993
Year of the Dragon
1985
Coffy
1973
Foxy Brown
1974
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