The French Connection (1971)
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Duration: 104 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: William Friedkin
Stars: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Fernando Rey
IMDb score:
7,7 (148.982)
Releasedate: 9 October 1971
The French Connection plot
"Doyle is bad news—but a good cop."
Agents Popeye Doyle and Buddy Russo track down a large drug shipment to New York. This trail leads to the French underworld trying to gain a foothold in New York. The realization that the police are eavesdropping on them makes the criminals extremely wary. The trail seems to fade, but Officer Popeye Doyle refuses to give up on the manhunt.
Actors and actresses
Jimmy Doyle
Buddy Russo
Alain Charnier
Sal Boca
Pierre Nicoli
Devereaux
Mulderig
Marie Charnier
Weinstock
Angie Boca
Reviews & comments
starbright boy (moderator films)
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Family of New York contemporaries such as Across 110th Street, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon and Taxi Driver. Not only in the sense of the rancid decor of New York that smells of porch piss, but also because of a cynical bitterness and a serious attack on figures you once had to look up to. At the end everything turns out to be a pointless state.
The film excels in its sense of locations and its rhythm. It was Friedkin's breakthrough and a commercial and critical hit. He then made The Exorcist (which was the highest-grossing film ever for a few years. He lost the goodwill that it generated. It was also a modern best film Oscar. That prize had gone from good movies like My Fair Lady and The Sound Of Music to In The Heat Of The Night, Midnight Cowboy and this movie in a few years.
For me, it was finally another Oscar winner that I really liked.
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Fisico
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A crime movie is not always my favorite genre. Often not always clear in terms of storyline, so I really have to make an effort to keep the events (and sometimes the many characters) apart. Also here I was rarely in the story. Lots of chases of which I couldn't get much head or tail at the time. Pretty messy in that regard.
What I did enjoy was the drab dilapidated quarters of the city. Dirty, dingy, dark and dirty. Futureless too. The film has to rely mainly on its atmosphere and decor. And the acting of Hackman and Scheider, among others.
In its entirety not quite, but a number of elements were definitely worth seeing.
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
French Connection II
1975
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