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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 about narcotics detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso .
Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle is a fictional character portrayed by actor Gene Hackman in the films The French Connection (1971) and its sequel, French Connection II (1975), and by Ed O'Neill in the 1986 television film Popeye Doyle. Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The French Connection.
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 action/crime movie To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), starring William Petersen and Willem Dafoe, was a critical favorite and drew comparisons to Friedkin's own The French Connection (particularly for its car chase sequence), while his courtroom drama/thriller Rampage (1987) received a fairly positive review from Roger Ebert. [30]
Bullitt, The French Connection, The Seven-Ups William Hickman (January 25, 1921 – February 24, 1986) was an American professional stunt driver , stunt coordinator and actor. His film career spanned from the 1950s through to the late 1970s, and included films such as Bullitt , The French Connection and The Seven-Ups .
Grosso, his partner Eddie Egan, and other NYPD detectives broke up an organized crime ring in 1961 and seized 112 pounds of heroin, a record amount at the time. [1] The investigation was the subject of a book by Robin Moore and subsequent Academy Award-winning film, The French Connection, which won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Film Editing, and Best Writing in 1971.
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
Auguste Joseph Ricord, nicknamed Il Commandante, (26 April 1911 – 1985) [1] was a French-Corsican heroin trafficker, convicted Nazi collaborator, [2] and one of the founding members of the French Connection, a mafiosi-type organisation involved in heroin trade, based in France in the 1950s and 1960s.