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The French Connection
Driving by his deep will of making the biggest bargain in his life, Alain Charnier, a French criminal, who plans for sending about 32 million of heroin to Los Angeles, but he has been followed by an undercover detective, the thing that leads him to send them with his kind friend, Henri Devereaux, a well-known television personality, the thing that brings terrible for him.
7 May 1906, New York City, New York, USA
3 June 1943, Liege, Belgium
1 September 1922, New York City, New York, USA
3 January 1930, New York City, New York, USA
25 January 1921, Los Angeles County, California, USA
24 February 1948, New York City, New York, USA
10 January 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
13 March 1947, New York, USA
19 October 1936, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1948
21 February 1925, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
30 January 1930, San Bernardino, California, USA
12 November 1929, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
28 October 1928, Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
7 December 1933, New York, USA
18 November 1914, New York City, New York, USA
July 12, 2012
...a classic bit of '70s filmmaking.
September 11, 2011
Four decades after its initial release, William Friedkin's Oscar-sweeper The French Connection remains an electrifying achievement.
March 11, 2015
Classic cop film with frequent profanity, violence.
February 13, 2012
Hard as nail crime saga with a blistering central performance.
January 18, 2008
William Friedkin's symphony of long, sharp shocks is memorable for any number of sequences.
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 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.
August 28, 2007
Popeye also earned counterculture points by mistakenly shooting a federal agent and exhibiting a conspicuous lack of remorse.
September 08, 2015
Gangbusters adjusted to the new decade's grungy ambiguity
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.
February 20, 2009
A knockout police thriller with so much jarring excitement that it almost calls for comic-book expletives. POW! ZOWIE!
