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The French Connection
Directed by
William Friedkin
R
1971
1h 44m
Action
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7.6
97%
87%
7.5
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A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.
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Cast of The French Connection
Gene Hackman
Jimmy Doyle
Roy Scheider
Buddy Russo
Fernando Rey
Alain Charnier
Tony Lo Bianco
Sal Boca
Marcel Bozzuffi
Pierre Nicoli
Frédéric de Pasquale
Devereaux
Bill Hickman
Mulderig
Ann Rebbot
Marie Charnier
Harold Gary
Weinstock
Arlene Farber
Angie Boca
Eddie Egan
Simonson / Other
André Ernotte
La Valle
Sonny Grosso
Klein
Benny Marino
Lou Boca
Patrick McDermott
Chemist
Alan Weeks
Pusher
Al Fann
Informant
Irving Abrahams
Police Mechanic
Randy Jurgensen
Police Sergeant
William Coke
Motorman
The French Connection Ratings & Reviews
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Ben Kern
[The film] is neither a documentary nor a grim slice of life but simply entertainment -- violent and bloody, yes, but still the kind of action and suspense stuff that kept the pulp fiction magazine alive for years and still intrigues most of us.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
It's not what I want not because it fails but because of what it is. It is, I think, what we once feared mass entertainment might become: jolts for jocks.
Solzy at the Movies
Danielle Solzman
The French Connection helps bring about a new era in filmmaking--much thanks to Friedkin and company--and cinema would never be the same.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Myles Standish
One of the most exciting and breathtaking chase films ever made.
Orlando Sentinel
David Wilkening
Connection tells a straight story, has some respect for its viewer's intelligence, and maintains dramatic situations that build with increasing tension from one scene to another.
Detroit Free Press
Lawrence DeVine
In spots, French Connection literally is breath-taking, far above the average cop film. And Hackman, for what he plays, is right on the money: He looks soiled, bitter, and quite hard, just like the movie around him.
Boston Globe
George McKinnon
Gene Hackman's performance as Jimmy Doyle, a tough cop with a mean streak and an unbending determination, is the best thing this always good actor has ever done.
Los Angeles Times
Charles Champlin
The French Connection has the gritty authenticity of a first-rate documentary. When it looks cold outside, baby, you know it was.
Philadelphia Inquirer
William B. Collins
There are times in The French Connection when you feel you'll be lucky to get home alive.
New York Daily News
Kathleen Carroll
Its trigger-fast, explosive scenes and high-tension chase sequences (the one in "Bullitt"
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
There is only one problem with the excitement generated by this film. After it is over, you will walk out of the theater and, as I did, curse the tedium of your own life. I kept looking for someone who I could throw up against a wall.
Slant Magazine
Budd Wilkins
Four decades after its initial release, William Friedkin's Oscar-sweeper The French Connection remains an electrifying achievement.
TIME Magazine
Jay Cocks
A knockout police thriller with so much jarring excitement that it almost calls for comic-book expletives. POW! ZOWIE!
Variety
Robert B. Frederick
Producer Philip D'Antoni and screenwriter Ernest Tidyman have added enough fictional flesh to provide director William Friedkin and his overall topnotch cast with plenty of material, and they make the most of it.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Popeye also earned counterculture points by mistakenly shooting a federal agent and exhibiting a conspicuous lack of remorse.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
This 1971 thriller about a heroin bust is solid, slick filmmaking, full of dirty cops, shrewd operators, and slam-bang action.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The French Connection is as amoral as its hero, as violent, as obsessed and as frightening.
New York Times
Roger Greenspun
It moves at magnificent speed, and exhausts itself in movement.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The film won five Academy Awards and set a new standard for action with its thrilling car chases.
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