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The French Connection
The movie follows New York City detectives Popeye Doyle and Buddy Russo who hope to break a narcotics smuggling ring and ultimately uncover The French Connection. The more Popeye and Cloudy dig, the closer they get, to where Chanier agrees to an attempt on Popeye's life that results in a brutal train hijacking and automobile pursuit, and eventually to a showdown between police and mobsters outside the city.
3 June 1943, Liege, Belgium
28 March 1931, Paris, France
19 October 1936, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1948
3 January 1930, New York City, New York, USA
3 April 1939, Yonkers, New York, USA
September 08, 2015
Gangbusters adjusted to the new decade's grungy ambiguity
January 18, 2008
William Friedkin's symphony of long, sharp shocks is memorable for any number of sequences.
September 11, 2011
Four decades after its initial release, William Friedkin's Oscar-sweeper The French Connection remains an electrifying achievement.
July 12, 2012
...a classic bit of '70s filmmaking.
February 19, 2013
To watch The French Connection now is to experience the shock of the old: a lost world of the city, and a lost style of film-making.
February 20, 2009
A knockout police thriller with so much jarring excitement that it almost calls for comic-book expletives. POW! ZOWIE!
February 13, 2012
Hard as nail crime saga with a blistering central performance.
February 19, 2008
Producer Philip D'Antoni and screenwriter Ernest Tidyman have added enough fictional flesh to provide director William Friedkin and his overall topnotch cast with plenty of material, and they make the most of it.
August 28, 2007
Popeye also earned counterculture points by mistakenly shooting a federal agent and exhibiting a conspicuous lack of remorse.
February 22, 2015
Its trigger-fast, explosive scenes and high-tension chase sequences (the one in "Bullitt" pales by comparison) will have you literally gasping for breath.
March 11, 2015
Classic cop film with frequent profanity, violence.