"of such ancient material as cops and crooks, with thrills and chases, and lots of shoot-'em-up."" As of June 2018, the film holds a 98% ""certified fresh"" rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 56 critics. The sites critical consensus states, ""Realistic, fast-paced and uncommonly smart, ""The French Connection"" is bolstered by stellar performances by Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider, not to mention William Friedkin's thrilling production."" In 2014, ""Time Out"" polled several film critics, directors, actors and stunt actors to list their top action films. ""The French Connection"" was listed at 40th place on this"
"The French Connection (film) The French Connection is a 1971 American crime thriller film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay, written by Ernest Tidyman, is based on Robin Moore's 1969 non-fiction book ""The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy"". It tells the story of New York Police Department detectives Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle and Buddy ""Cloudy"" Russo, whose real-life counterparts were Narcotics Detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, in pursuit of wealthy French heroin smuggler Alain Charnier. The film stars Gene Hackman as Popeye, Roy Scheider as Cloudy, and Fernando Rey as Charnier. Tony Lo Bianco"
"fictional. Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle 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 character is based on a real-life New York City police detective, Eddie Egan, who also appeared in the film as Walt Simonson, Doyle's supervisor. Doyle, as played by Hackman in ""The French Connection"", is ranked number 44 as a hero on the"
"Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle 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 character is based on a real-life New York City police detective, Eddie Egan, who also appeared in the film as Walt Simonson, Doyle's supervisor. Doyle, as played by Hackman in ""The French Connection"", is ranked number 44 as a hero on the AFI's"
"released. This time the color-timing was supervised by both Friedkin and Roizman, and the desaturated and sometimes over-grainy look of the 2009 edition have been corrected. The French Connection (film) The French Connection is a 1971 American crime thriller film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay, written by Ernest Tidyman, is based on Robin Moore's 1969 non-fiction book ""The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy"". It tells the story of New York Police Department detectives Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle and Buddy ""Cloudy"" Russo, whose real-life counterparts were Narcotics Detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, in pursuit"
"the United States by hiding it in the car of his unsuspecting friend, French television personality Henri Devereaux, who is traveling to New York by ship. In New York City, detectives Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle and Buddy ""Cloudy"" Russo are conducting an undercover stakeout in Brooklyn. After seeing a drug transaction take place in a bar, Cloudy goes in to make an arrest. After a short pursuit, the detectives interrogate the man, who reveals his drug connection. Later, Popeye and Cloudy go out for drinks at the Copacabana, where The Three Degrees give a high energy performance of the Jimmy Webb"
"Roy Scheider Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer. Scheider gained fame for his leading and supporting roles in several iconic films from the 1970s, playing NYPD Detective Buddy ""Cloudy"" Russo in ""The French Connection"" (1971); NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci in ""The Seven Ups"" (1973); Police Chief Martin Brody in ""Jaws"" (1975) and ""Jaws 2"" (1978); Doc in ""Marathon Man"" (1976); choreographer and film director Joe Gideon (whose character was based on Bob Fosse) in ""All That Jazz"" (which was written and directed by Fosse) (1979); and Dr. Heywood R."
"marrow transplant to treat the cancer in June 2005. He died on February 10, 2008, in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Hospital. Roy Scheider Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer. Scheider gained fame for his leading and supporting roles in several iconic films from the 1970s, playing NYPD Detective Buddy ""Cloudy"" Russo in ""The French Connection"" (1971); NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci in ""The Seven Ups"" (1973); Police Chief Martin Brody in ""Jaws"" (1975) and ""Jaws 2"" (1978); Doc in ""Marathon Man"" (1976); choreographer and"
"cast members. Picking up two or three years after the original left off, narcotics officer Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle (Gene Hackman) is still searching for elusive drug kingpin Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey). Orders from his superiors send Doyle to Marseille, France, to track down the criminal mastermind and bust his drug ring. Once in France, Doyle is met by Inspector Henri Barthélémy (Bernard Fresson), who resents his rude and crude crimefighting demeanor. Doyle then begins to find himself as a fish out of water in France, where he is matched with a language he cannot understand. Doyle is shown round the"
"Picture. All three feature a memorable car chase sequence. Several other people who worked on ""The French Connection"" were also involved in this film, such as Scheider, screenwriter and police technical advisor Sonny Grosso, composer Don Ellis, and stunt coordinator Bill Hickman. 20th Century Fox was again the distributor. Buddy Manucci, played by Scheider, is a loose remake of the character of Buddy ""Cloudy"" Russo he played in ""The French Connection"", a character who also used dirty tactics to capture his enemies, and who was also based on Sonny Grosso. NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci has been getting flak from the"
"15 years, and he was reported to have been responsible for more than 8,000 arrests. Egan's most famous exploits were the subject of a book and movie, both titled ""The French Connection"". Egan, his partner Sonny Grosso, and other NYPD detectives broke up an organized crime ring in 1961 seizing 112 pounds of heroin, a record amount at the time. The investigation was the subject of a book by Robin Moore and the subsequent motion picture released in 1971. The movie was highly fictionalized and very successful. The character based on Egan, Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle, was played by Gene Hackman"
"100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains list. In the 1971 movie ""The French Connection"", Popeye is a rough police detective who routinely breaks the rules in an effort to catch criminals, in this case a group of French drug smugglers. On an individual basis, Popeye has many negative qualities, e.x. he is an overzealous, bigoted and womanizing alcoholic who is often disrespectful to his superiors. Nevertheless, he is a dedicated officer leading the New York Police Department's narcotics squad in drug arrests and is willing to do whatever it takes to lock up known drug dealers, even if it involves civilians."
"half out of four stars and said that ""if Frankenheimer and his screenplay don't do justice to the character (of Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle), they at least do justice to the genre, and this is better than most of the many cop movies that followed ""The French Connection"" into release."" Vincent Canby wrote in his review in the New York Times, ""Popeye is a colorful and interesting — though hardly noble — character, and when the Marseille drug people kidnap him, forcibly create a heroin habit in him, and then release him, you have a very special kind of jeopardy that"
"Near the end of the movie, Popeye accidentally kills Bill Mulderig (Bill Hickman), a federal agent with whom he previously had an argument. Undeterred with his death, Popeye continues in pursuit of his foe. This shows Popeye's absolute obsession in his mission. 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"
"a street in New York City renamed after Patrolman Cardillo. Jurgensen began working as a technical consultant in the film industry, while a detective for the NYPD. His notable films include ""The French Connection"" and ""Donnie Brasco"". In the early 1960s, Jurgensen and his partner performed undercover work to investigate homosexual murders in New York City. Homosexuals were being targeted by two perpetrators who would pose as police officers. His work was inspiration for the film ""Cruising"", and Al Pacino played his character. Acting Randy Jurgensen Randy Jurgensen is a former NYPD detective, best known as the lead investigator into"
"cast as NYPD detective Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle for the planned television series ""Popeye Doyle"". The character had originally appeared in the motion picture ""The French Connection"" (played by Gene Hackman). The two-hour made-for-television movie/pilot was filmed and shown on network television. O'Neill received good reviews for his performance, and the pilot received good ratings, but the series was not picked up for production. In 1986, while playing the role of Lennie in a stage production of John Steinbeck's ""Of Mice and Men"" at the Hartford Theater in Hartford, Connecticut, he was seen by a casting agent from the Fox television"
"""rude boy"" subculture popularized the hat and brought it back into style in the United Kingdom, thereby influencing its occasional appearance in the mod subculture. The porkpie hat enjoyed a slight resurgence in exposure and popularity after Gene Hackman's character Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle wore one in the 1971 film ""The French Connection"". Doyle was based on real-life policeman Eddie Egan, who played the captain in the film, and his exploits. Egan was famous all his life for wearing a pork pie hat, and refused to surrender his hat to Gene Hackman to wear in the film. The producers were forced"
"French Connection II French Connection II is a 1975 crime drama film starring Gene Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is a fictional sequel to the initially true story of the 1971 Academy Award winning picture ""The French Connection"". The film expands on the central character of Det. Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle who travels to Marseille, France where he is attempting to track down French drug-dealer Alain Charnier, who escaped at the end of the first film. Hackman won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the original ""The French Connection"" and he and Fernando Rey are the only returning"
"The French Connection, ""(he) was an only son with three sisters. When his father, a truck driver, died suddenly at thirty-seven, Sonny, the eldest, became the head of the family at fifteen. He treated his sisters with fatherly care. Egan and Grosso were technical advisers to the movie and played small roles. The movie was highly fictionalized, and a character based on Grosso, called ""Buddy Russo"", was played by actor Roy Scheider, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. Like the character, Grosso's nickname as a detective was ""Cloudy."" This was due to"
"the film and Mr. Hackman exploit most effectively"". The film earned North American rentals of $5.6 million, surpassing its $4.3 million budget. ""Empire"" considered ""French Connection II"" to be the 19th greatest film sequel in 2009. French Connection II French Connection II is a 1975 crime drama film starring Gene Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is a fictional sequel to the initially true story of the 1971 Academy Award winning picture ""The French Connection"". The film expands on the central character of Det. Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle who travels to Marseille, France where he is attempting to track down"
"enforcement, later working as a narcotics detective. He and his former NYPD partner, Eddie Egan, were the detectives responsible for bringing an end to the infamous drug smuggling ring known as the French Connection. Grosso served as technical adviser on the film based on the investigation. He also worked as a consultant for the film ""The Godfather"" and as story editor for the TV series ""The Rockford Files"", ""Kojak"" and ""Baretta"". Grosso and Jacobson were originally approached by CBS to produce a docudrama series following actual police officers, but they considered the potential risk in filming people who had not"
"who won an Academy Award for his performance (the film also won Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, and Editing). The character was called ""Popeye"" because that was Egan's nickname in real life. Egan played a role in the movie as Hackman's supervisor, Simonson. Egan and Grosso were also technical advisors. Hackman reprised this role in the sequel film ""French Connection II"" in 1975, which depicts a fictionalized story. In 1986, a network television series ""Popeye Doyle"" was planned based on the fictionalized character from the two films with Ed O'Neill playing the title character. While the series was never"
"as New York City Detective Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle in ""The French Connection"", marking his graduation to leading man status. He followed this with leading roles in the disaster film ""The Poseidon Adventure"" (1972) and Francis Ford Coppola's ""The Conversation"" (1974), which was nominated for several Oscars. That same year, Hackman appeared in what became one of his most famous comedic roles as The Blindman in ""Young Frankenstein"". He later appeared as one of Teddy Roosevelt's former Rough Riders in the Western horse-race saga ""Bite the Bullet"" (1975), as well as in that year's sequel ""French Connection II"". In 1975 he"
"Robert Davi Robert John Davi (born June 26, 1951) is an American actor, singer, and entertainer. Over the course of his acting career, Davi has performed in more than 130 films. Among his most recognized roles are opera-singing heavy Jake Fratelli in ""The Goonies"" (1985), Vietnam veteran and FBI Special Agent Big Johnson in ""Die Hard"" (1988), Bond villain Franz Sanchez in ""Licence to Kill"" (1989), police deputy chief Phil Heinemann in ""Predator 2"" (1990) and strip club manager Al Torres in ""Showgirls"" (1995). On television, he portrayed FBI Special Agent Bailey Malone in the NBC television series ""Profiler"" (1996–2000)."
"the real life exploits of Sonny Grosso and Eddie Egan. While making ""The French Connection"", Grosso told d'Antoni the story of ""the kidnapping of cops who weren't really cops,"" said the producer. ""A very weird and fascinating story."" It was about a group of police who existed in the 1950s who were only assigned felonies where the penalties were seven years and up. ""The French Connection"" was a big box office success and 20th Century Fox agreed to let D'Antoni direct. ""We kind of agreed the best one to direct this would be me,"" he said. Filming locations include Manhattan,"
"Joey Lawrence Joseph Lawrence Migogna Jr. (born April 20, 1976) is an American actor, musician, and game show host. He is known for his roles as Joey Donavan on ""Gimme a Break"", Joey Russo in ""Blossom"", Joe Roman in ""Brotherly Love"", and Joe Longo in ""Melissa & Joey"". Lawrence was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Donna, a personnel manager and former elementary school teacher, and Joseph Lawrence Mignogna Sr., an insurance broker. He is of partial Italian descent. His family's surname was changed to ""Lawrence"" during his childhood. He has two younger brothers, Matt and Andy, who are"
"half gram of marijuana and 18 MDMA pills. Craig Robinson (actor) Craig Phillip Robinson (born October 25, 1971) is an American actor, comedian, and singer. He is best known for his roles as Darryl Philbin on ""The Office"" (2005–2013), Doug Judy (the ""Pontiac Bandit"") on ""Brooklyn Nine-Nine"" (2013–) and Matheson in ""Pineapple Express"" (2008). Robinson has appeared in numerous other television shows and films including ""Zack and Miri Make a Porno"" (2008), ""Hot Tub Time Machine"" (2010), ""This Is the End"" (2013), and ""Sausage Party"" (2016). Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a music teacher mother and an attorney"
"Steve Dorsett in the musical ""Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story"". Jason Blackwater in the 2013/14 '25th Anniversary' UK National tour and Thomas Mitchells in the 2016/17 UK National Tour. ""Chantilly Lace"" is used in the movies ""True Romance"" and ""American Graffiti"" as well as ""High Spirits"". The character Dragoon is referenced as being the Big Bopper, as is his partner/body host Red Mantle being Buddy Holly in the animated series ""The Venture Bros."" The Big Bopper Jiles Perry ""J. P."" Richardson Jr. (October 24, 1930 – February 3, 1959), known as The Big Bopper, was an American musician, singer"
"Doyle confronting Nicoli the hitman at the stairs leading to the subway and shooting him as he tries to run back up them. Many of the police officers acting as advisers for the film objected to the scene on the grounds that shooting a suspect in the back was simply murder, not self-defense, but director Friedkin stood by it, stating that he was ""secure in my conviction that that's exactly what Eddie Egan (the model for Doyle) would have done and Eddie was on the set while all of this was being shot."" ""The French Connection"" was filmed in the"
"Doyle (Wheaton Chambers) needs some salesmen and the trio have no trouble getting the job because, unbeknownst to them, the whole thing is a scam. Dressed in duck-hunting gear, Larry, Moe and Curly invade the police station and barge right into the office of the police chief (Bud Jamison). The Stooges somehow convince him, the mayor, and the entire police department to join up. Once the stooges informed the conmen about the sale and who they sold them to, the conmen took the money and leave knowing that they'll get caught. By the time the group arrives at the lodge,"
"The Preppie Connection The Preppie Connection is a 2015 American-French crime drama film written and directed by Joseph Castelo and based on the infamous 1984 incident where Choate Rosemary Hall student Derek Oatis, along with a handful of friends, ran a cocaine smuggling operation on the school's campus. The film stars Thomas Mann, Lucy Fry, Sam Page, Bill Sage, Jessica Rothe. The film had world premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 10, 2015. The film was released on March 18, 2016, in a limited release, and through video on demand by IFC Films. In 1984, a private"
"Sonny Grosso Salvatore ""Sonny"" Grosso (born 1933) is a movie and television producer and former New York City Police Department detective, noted for his role in the case immortalized in the book and movie versions of the French Connection. He was born in 1932 or 1933 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Grosso and 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. The investigation was the subject of a book by Robin Moore and an Academy Award-winning motion picture. Robin Moore writes in"
"Craig Robinson (actor) Craig Phillip Robinson (born October 25, 1971) is an American actor, comedian, and singer. He is best known for his roles as Darryl Philbin on ""The Office"" (2005–2013), Doug Judy (the ""Pontiac Bandit"") on ""Brooklyn Nine-Nine"" (2013–) and Matheson in ""Pineapple Express"" (2008). Robinson has appeared in numerous other television shows and films including ""Zack and Miri Make a Porno"" (2008), ""Hot Tub Time Machine"" (2010), ""This Is the End"" (2013), and ""Sausage Party"" (2016). Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a music teacher mother and an attorney father. He was raised on the South Side"