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" Watched March 4th - Netflix DVD - Rewatch "All right, Popeye's here! - get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall" - Popeye Doyle It has been a very long time since I have seen The French Connection, and on seeing it again - it really didn't hold up well - I thought it was a sloppily made movie - the directing, writing and especially the editing - but the worst part was Popeye Doyle, Gene Hackman did a good job portraying him - but as a character, Doyle was just plain "

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The French Connection

“The film revolves around the smuggling of narcotics between Marseille, France and New York City, USA. In Marseille a policeman is staking out Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey), a French criminal who is smuggling heroin from France to the United States. The policeman is assassinated by Charnier's henchman, Pierre Nicoli.

In New York, detectives James "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo (Roy Scheider) are conducting an undercover stakeout in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. After seeing a drug transaction take place in a bar, Russo goes in to make an arrest and the suspect makes a break for it. After catching up with their suspect and delivering a severe beating after the suspect cuts Russo on the arm with a knife, the detectives aggressively interrogate the man, forcin” read more

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Mustanaamio7's Movie Diary - Year 2011 (713 movies items)

"10.12. 2011 Along with "The Exorcist" and "To Live and Die in L.A.", "The French Connection" is one of William Friedkin's masterpieces. It is based on true events but this fact doesn't make the movie any less exciting. Actually, all the intense action scenes, like the famous chase scene, are in fact more impressive when you know that these things have really happened. In the plot two tough detectives "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy Russo are searching for a big group of drug dealers. One of the crimi"