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The French Connection in the 1960s. The first major French Connection seizure in the 1960s began in June, when an informant told a drug agent in Lebanon that Mauricio Rosal, the Guatemalan Ambassador to Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, was smuggling morphine base from Beirut to Marseille. Narcotics agents had been seizing about 200 ...
The French Connection, also known as The French Connection: The World's Most Crucial Narcotics Investigation and The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy, is a nonfiction book by Robin Moore first published in 1969 about the notorious "French Connection" drug-trafficking scheme.
The French Connection is a 1971 American neo-noir [6] action thriller film [7] directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey. The screenplay, by Ernest Tidyman , is based on Robin Moore 's 1969 nonfiction book .
The 1975 sequel French Connection II follows Popeye as he pursues drug smuggler Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) back to Marseille. Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey — the only two cast members to appear in both movies — reprised their roles as Popeye and Charnier. While the original movie was based on a true story, the sequel was entirely fictional.
The French Connection, a 1971 film based on the book French Connection II, the sequel to the 1971 film; The French Connection (The O.C.), a 2007 episode of The O.C. television series; The Connection (2014 action film), a 2014 French-Belgian action crime thriller film directed by Cédric Jimenez
Tony Lo Bianco, best known for playing the mobster Sal Boca in 1971’s The French Connection, has died.He was 87. In a statement to Fox News, Lo Bianco’s representative confirmed that the actor ...
New details, French connection emerge in Election Day terrorism case. Gannett. Nolan Clay, The Oklahoman. October 17, 2024 at 1:51 PM. ... (This story was updated to add new information.)
Robert Lowell Moore Jr. (October 31, 1925 – February 21, 2008) was an American writer who wrote The Green Berets, The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy, and with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.