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Film Description
A pairing of the two 1970s narcotics movies.
In The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971), 'Popeye' Doyle (an Academy Award-winning Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) are tough New York cops attempting to crack a drug smuggling ring. They have a small candy store under surveillance, but Doyle is not happy when he receives the order to work with a pair of French federal agents on the case, one of whom he has a long-standing feud with. Gene Hackman and director William Friedkin both earned Academy Awards for the film, which also took Best Picture. The legendary car chase and the bleak, ambiguous ending remain amongst the greatest sequences in American movies of the 1970s.
French Connection II (Frankenheimer, 1975) sees Popeye Doyle travel to Marseilles to track down Charnier, the leader of a drug smuggling ring whom he failed to capture in 'The French Connection'. Kidnapped by dealers and pumped with heroin, Doyle has to kick his new-found habit before he can set about his revenge. Considered by many as the superior film to the first.
