The French Connection - 1971
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The French Connection

Updated: 18 Jul 2022
Directors:
Gerald B. Greenberg Chris Newman Kenneth Utt Owen Roizman Ernest Tidyman Philip D'Antoni Sass Bedig William Friedkin Robin Moore Don Ellis Don Ellis Ben Kasazkow Edward Garzero Bill Hickman Theodore Soderberg Irving Buchman Norman Gay Terence A. Donnelly Enrique Bravo Eddie Egan Nicholas Sgarro William C. Gerrity Sonny Grosso William Ward G. David Schine Joseph Fretwell III Robert Ward Robert Weiner Paul Ganapoler Thomas Wright Fat Thomas Joseph W. Dehn Florence Foy
Actors:
Gene Hackman Fernando Rey Roy Scheider Tony Lo Bianco Marcel Bozzuffi Frédéric de Pasquale Bill Hickman Ann Rebbot Harold Gary Arlene Farber Eddie Egan André Ernotte Sonny Grosso Benny Marino Patrick McDermott Alan Weeks Al Fann Irving Abrahams Randy Jurgensen William Coke
Genre:
Thriller, Crime, Action
Country: no data
Year: 1971
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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And I saw them all when I was a kid, when I was 9, 10, 11. I saw "The Godfather" when it came out. I saw "The French Connection" when it came out. I literally saw "The Wild Bunch" on a double feature with "Deliverance" when I was in third grade.
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I grew up on ‘70s films, like French Connection, Butch and Sundance, President’s Men, and Dog Day Afternoon. That was my jam. It left a mark on a lot of us.
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I always pine for what I’ve looked at as sort of the Golden Age of Movies in the Seventies — you know, here comes Serpico and Dog Day, The French Connection and Mean Streets, just on and on and on! That kind of early Seventies gritty, urban film. Even a movie like Death Wish, which is way more commercial than the movies I just mentioned, you look at something like that and think, that was what Hollywood was putting out then? Everybody saw those movies and thought, 'I'm not going anywhere near New York City, no way!' I saw them and thought, 'Oh man, I have to get to New York City!' You know what I mean?
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At a Directors Guild of America (DGA) event in 2011, Spielberg explained that he studied The French Connection in preparation for Munich (2005), his morally ambiguous take on the aftermath of the 1972 Olympic Games massacre. In particular, his use of zoom lenses was informed heavily by Owen Roizman’s Oscar-nominated cinematography. More recently, the wordless, beautifully choreographed on-foot chase through New York that opens Bridge of Spies feels particularly indebted to Friedkin’s work here.
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