Gene Hackman is Popeye Doyle, an obsessive New York cop hellbent on busting a heroin ring in William Friedkin's tough,...
Gene Hackman is Popeye Doyle, an obsessive New York cop hellbent on busting a heroin ring in William Friedkin's tough, fast-paced The French Connection. Winner of Best Film, Director and Actor at the 1972 Academy Awards.
"Story involves a $32 million shipment of high-grade heroin smuggled from Marseilles to New York hidden in a Lincoln Continental. A complicated deal is set up between the French people, an American money man and the Mafia. Doyle, a tough cop with a shaky reputation who busts a lot of street junkies, needs a big win to keep his career together. He stumbles on the heroin deal and pursues it with a single-minded ferocity that is frankly amoral. He isn't after the smugglers because they're breaking the law; he's after them because his job consumes him." (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).
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96 %94 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
87 %44,611 reviewsAudience score rating
"A film of almost incredible suspense, and it includes, among a great many chilling delights, the most brilliantly executed chase sequence I have ever seen."
The New York Times"As amoral as its hero, as violent, as obsessed and as frightening."
Roger Ebert"Hard as nail crime saga with a blistering central performance."
Empire Magazine"Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider play it hard and fast."
BBCThe French Connection | Details
Award winner- Winner of five Oscars including Best Film, Director and Lead Actor (Hackman), Academy Awards 1972.
- Runtime
- 104
- Genre
- Action, Thriller
- Country of origin
- USA
