a5c7b9f00b A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
Police partners Doyle and Russo put a candy store under surveillance based on a hunch that something fishy was going on. Eventually it turns out that the proprietors are involved in one of the biggest narcotics smuggling rings on either side of the Atlantic, and the cops go to work.
French Connection holds no prisoners: it's a tough, documentary-style crime thriller that never knows when to give up.<br/><br/>Based on a true incident, detectives "Popeye" Doyle (Hackman) and his buddy Kliene (Scheider) work the 70s crime streets of New York. On the basis of a tip off and some curious goings-on from various known crims, they use undercover surveillance on a French gang who threaten to do a huge drugs import deal worth millions of dollars.<br/><br/>Initially faced with scepticism within their own departmentwelltwo colleagues from the FBI Popeye is convinced the deal is going to happen real soon. But without hard evidence and some previously failed raids they're both taken off the case.<br/><br/>From this point the movie trips into top gearPopeye is almost killed by a sniper to whom he later gives chase, first by foot and then by the remarkable car/train chase.<br/><br/>Director, Friedkin really hits the right notes with this tough, uncompromising film. There are no beautiful actors here, no flashy cars or suits or easily resolved riddles like you tend to find in a lot of contemporary films (the rather poor "Heat" being one prime example). This film isyou would find in real life on the streets of any big city, where footwork and a lot of disappointments are the order of the day.<br/><br/>The film is most remembered for that Car Chase which is both a bonus & a millstone, because people tend to forget the real details of the story for the sake of the all-action chase. <br/><br/>Hackman has never been better, and even eclipses his wonderful part in The Conversation (1973). He truly revels in his rolethe determined Popeye eager to track down his nemesis "Frog One" wonderfully underplayed by Fernando Rey. <br/><br/>Scheider gives excellent supportHackman's colleague, who trusts Hackman's instincts even though he isn't quite so enthusiastic about going beyond all legal means of police detection work to which Hackman is ever forced to consider.<br/><br/>The music suits the content of the film to a tee. Either very pounding, or slow, industrial & methodical just like the characters on screen. While the cinematography is also very streetwise & unrestrained (this was pre-SteadyCam).<br/><br/>The car chase is still talked about nearly 30 years on. The most remarkable aspect is that it was more or less a one-take shot, and a lot of it is very much unrehearsed (as the IMDM Trivia Notes will testify too).<br/><br/>Whether it still holds a candle to modern day chases is a moot point, but it doesn't really matter because when people look back on their favourite chase they will either remember this one or probably Steve McQueen in "Bullitt" (1968).<br/><br/>French Connection is perhaps one of the best cop films of the 70s (or any era for that matter). There are no real heroes, no soundbites (aka. Harry Callaghan's "Make My Day" or "Feel Lucky, Punk!"). Just wonderfully convincing acting with no contrived endings.<br/><br/>The only real complaint is the lack of characterization from the two leads. We get to know little or nothing about their family/private life other than Popeye chases girls and lives on his own (as farwe know). Without this extra dimension it's difficult for us to really warm to either of them, even though they're fighting good against evil.<br/><br/>But nontheless, French Connection is a superior film and deserved the awards it so easily won. It also outshines the latter sequel by quite a distance too.<br/><br/>Don't be shocked by the rather outdated 70s look: crime is crime whatever the era. French Connection Rocks!!<br/><br/>*****/*****
Simply put, this is well and truly one of the most overrated movies of all time.
This tough, brilliant crime film features Hackmanthe indefatigable Popeye Doyle, who passionately hates drug pushers.
The word "frog" is often useda derogatory term for someone of French descent. When Popeye refers to Charnier"Frog One," he's trying to distinguish Charnier from his partner, Pierre Nicoli. It can also be a way to show Popeye's generally bigoted attitude. He's deliberately trying to confuse Willy into making a confession. Poughkeepsie is a small city about 80 miles north of New York on the Hudson River. Willy may have a drug connection up there that buys product from him and sells it in that region. His line, which is somewhere along the lines of "when was the last time you picked your feet in Poughkeepsie" is basically nonsense. Repeating it and variations of it including only Poughkeepsie or just when the person has last "picked their feet", over and over in a threatening manner, is a tactic meant to bewilder the subject. While the criminal is desperately trying to figure out what this sentence is a code for, the interrogators intersperse the badgering with actual questions like "who's your connection Willie, what's his name!?" and "is it Joe the barber?" The totally confused criminal up against the wall, doesn't know what this Poughkeepsie thing is, but it sounds bad and he sure didn't do it. So to take the questioning away from this mysterious act the police think he's performed, that must be pretty terrible, Willie admits to what they really want to know out of fear. This tactic/phrase was actually developed by the character that Gene Hackman played, in real life (the movie is loosely based on a true story). Source: French Connection Commentary extra found in the DVD version of the movie. They more than likely bought Devereaux a new car exactly like the old one. Putting the car back together after spending several hours tearing it apart would have taken at least twicelong, plus there was the actual damage they caused to the interior while ripping out upholstery, carpeting & other trim. From there it'd be a simple matter of buying a new Lincoln, pulling out the rocker panels in that one & stashing the heroin & transferring the license plates to it.
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