The French Connection

[morval99]

2 people pick their feet in Poughkeepsie.

[MrVuHNguyen]

This movie, like Bullitt starring Steve McQueen, are historic in film making, and should be the gold standard to follow. I just love these immortal classics.

[ST3EZUSChrist]

Great movie, but i feel like a lot of things in it were only not regarded as cliched because nobody else had done them yet

[summonlove1]

how come now,all people make are stupid movies.all the good movies were in the 70s-90s

[egliath]

not sayin this is a bad movie, actually its very good, but i think a clockwork orange should have won the oscar

[tfman31]

good movie. all the good films were from the 70's and 80's

[muppetshowman1972]

chef d 'oeuvre!!!!!!! culte!!!!!

[92af]

The French Connection is much better than that sucked Lord of the Rings shit is

[juve96]

This is one of my favourite movie of all time, best cop movie ever! You don't see stuff like this anymore because creativity is DEAD, all Hollywood does is remakes.

[roflpancakes]

@juve96 I mean..it is based off a novel..which is based on the actual event. But great movie nonetheless.

[cranfield1]

this film has a very rare scene in the beginning when someone is shot in the face. it looked very realistic, face shots are hard to come by

[toepebble]

The dope from this bust went straight to the streets via the cops and the mob. Throw in the pretty suits who run the show now with their pharmesuitical companies and drug cartels as junior partners and you have one twisted drug war. The bonfire rages and those who run it talk like preachers and noble patriots.

[1952kid]

Old school NYC, NO HIP HOP , NO RAP, SOME FUNK AND JAMES BROWN..

[wiedep]

most of the guys in the bar scene are off-duty nyc cops, friends of eddie and sonny.

[Maximilus]

no doubt one of the all time greatest suspense action films

[omegamann71]

This is cinematic art

[starfox471]

1971

[92af]

Gene Hackman is a fucking great actor

[daveibukun]

There should be a remake of this movie.

[matchbox555]

@daveibukun no they will just make a mess of it like usual

[mastermovies10000]

@daveibukun no fuckin way

[chadley6916]

Awesome movie, even by today's standards if you ask me. Still have not seen FC2.  Looking forward to that one.

[slazzer145]

the french connection  film made gene Hackman a big star...

[mar1978able]

I would like watched the french connection 3, its possible????

[monkeymits56]

one of my favourite films-loved Gene ever since I saw it all those years ago in the cinema-but is Fench Connection 2 better?

[slickdickham]

santa outfit hahah classic

[Cardiff67235]

Great commentary by William Friedkin on this.

[JPJP001]

and Fernando Rey is very cool

[JPJP001]

WOW..the THREE DEGREES in Action!!!

[fhddriver]

great director, excellent actor, believable story. Done when movies were movies. What a movie!

[iamhungey12345]

@fhddriver

It was based from a true story.

The sequel on the other hand...not so much.

[matthewinnj08]

is this movie worth buying?

[damoflexi]

it's up in my top 5 of all time

[monkeymits56]

yes!

[CaptainQuint100]

@matthewinnj08  in a word...............YES.

[joni2691]

Doyle is bad news, but he's a good cop..doondahhh!!!! Love it !

[pogo265]

in an alienated urban landscape, under a gritty urban reality and long before there was political correctness they made the French Connection -probably the best cop movie ever made.

[popey111]

Ratners is no longer in business. The all night bar that Doyle sleeps at the counter is now a ball field. The big empty lot in the beginning where the drug dealer get a beatdown is now a hospital. Anyone know where the chez was or where the french restaurant that frog1 eats at are

[speeta]

@popey111 I too have tracked down as many of the actual NYC shooting locations I can find. The restaurant, the "Copain", was at the corner of 1st avenue and 50th street. "The Chez" is still a mystery. The bar at the very beginning of this trailer stood on Myrtle Avenue near Broadway, Brooklyn. It's since been replaced by a Dunkin' Donuts shop - and a "Popeye's" fried chicken franchise!

[popey111]

Greatest movie of all time!!!!!!

Every year I have a craving for this movie and flip in the dvd.

I'm so obsessed I've located most of the of the street shots thanks to google maps street view like. To my disappointment, the bar at the beginning of the movie has been demolished and replaced with public housing. even the elevated railway has been submerged. "Sal and angies" still exists at least the building does.

[speeta]

@popey111 The bar at the beginning of the movie, The "Oasis" where Popeye and Cloudy are wearing the Santa Claus & hot dog vendor disguises still stands. It's on Broadway in Brooklyn, near Myrtle Avenue, currently remade into a Chinese take-out restaurant. The Broadway elevated is still overhead, currently the M & J train lines.

[jeffbrak]

Wow. When movies actually had a plot, great acting and a soul. No thumping, generic canned orchestra. No crappy Michael Bay-esque CGI. No schizophrenic camera angles which switch every second.

Just a brilliant film. 2009 hollywood, eat your fucking heart out.

[Caobilll]

I couldn't agree with you more.

[chalomirof63]

A classic - and obviously, Hackman at his best! Thanks for posting!

[CesMan83]

"Wanna take a ride there, fatman?!"

[MrSuedehead72]

le meilleur polar de tout les temps!!!!!!! et une bande son fantastic!!!! de don ellis hélas difficile a trouver en cd du grand art thanks mister frienkin!!!!

[forestgumpaed]

a film you must see before you die,absolute classic.

[brendabaloyan]

This is one hell of a Movie! A true Classic! They don't make them like this anymore!

[szewei85]

this movie is dope and probably got the best car chase of all time

[surfquik123]

can anybody tell me what happens at the end? you just hear a shot but at the end it says they both lived

[wsmith68]

The real Popeye Doyle plays Hackman's supervisor in this movie and part of this narration sounds like it was done by him. At 1:07 the guy Hackman is pointing at is the real Doyle.

I think the liberty with which Friedkin stole shots was possible because of Popeye's involvement.

The score is incredible as is the cat/mouse between Fernando Rey and Hackman.

LEGENDARY !!

[wsmith68]

The movie is based on Popeye's real-life bust in the early sixties. The Marseilles kingpin (embodied as Alain Charnier in the film) had connections going all the way back to BOTH the Vichy Regime AND the Resistance. It is believed that the kingpin was owed a debt of gratitude by Charles de Gaulle and that this is why he was allowed to operate so sucessfully and was never caught.

[wsmith68]

Ooops my mistake. The real Doyle is the Federal agent who clashes with Hackman.

[MiguelT2006]

Nope sorry. The supervisor of Hackman is Eddie Egan, the real Popeye. The names were changed. The guy who clashes with Hackman is a stunt, and the guy who really drove in the chase scene. The other real guy (Sonny Grosso) in which is based the Roy Scheider character also appears in the movie as other cop. Sonny Grosso later quit NYPD and started a movie production company. And he even appears in The Godfather I as an actor too.

[wsmith68]

Yes sir, you are correct. And yes, Sonny Grosso is the guy outside the hospital in GF1 who pleads to Capt. McCluskey, "The kid's clean; hes a war hero". To which McCluskey replies, "Gaaddamit, I said take 'im in!" Michael shoots back with "How much is the Turk payin' you to set up my father, Captain?" Then Capt says, "Take ahold of 'im--stand 'im up straight." and punches Mikey in the jaw. Thanks for the correction; you know your stuff!

[Yapostadodat]

Hackman is what the film is known for but it owes most credit to Friedkin's direction.

[deibid2003]

#70 in the AFI's list of greatest american movies of all time. Im watching all the movies of the list online in this site:

blogger-films.blogspot. *com

[heddito]

great movie

[ELGROOVER]

A gre@ 70's movie from my favourite movie era. The sequel was good too. The 'box-set 1 & 2' was the second dvd I ever bought.

Still picking my feet in Poughkeepsie ;  D

[COZBOODEE]

Ok. amazing because I picked watched part 2 only this morning. Hackman just blows me away. they dont make em like him anymore.

[ELGROOVER]

COZBOODEE

I've not w@ched 'em for a couple of years. I'll tre@ myself this Crimble and view 'em then. Hackman is brill and the direction too! I like the slow pace (which todays audiences may not)....seeing Doyle slowly 'frying', seething...waiting, waiting, stalking his prey. Gre@ stuff with terrific action sceens when they do occur....freaking marvellous : D

[gasnra09]

The famous car chase scene is ONE of THE best in movie history!!

It's a great adrenaline rush!

[sesarathor]

They should fight the italians

[Cokain3]

Gene Hackman .. one of the best actors from story!

[frenchconnection27]

I love this movie and part 2 as well.

[joemb1977]

I don't know who's better in this film, Gene Hackman or New York City.

[zim83]

You are so right.

[XIKOPOION]

u know guys from marseille killed jfk? pretty good gangs there ..}

[BOYZEEE1]

The song is by: The Three Degrees. They sing in the bar secene. Don't know the song name.

Might be called everybody gets to go to the moon.

[ELGROOVER]

BOYZEEE1

No might about it, you're spot on, it is called Everybody Gets To Go To The Moon - by The 3° - written by Jimmy Webb ※

[clashrogers]

R.I.P. Ron Scheider.

[alainbacquey]

@clashrogers His name is Roy Scheider...

[guthywoodry]

@clashrogers

Yep;

Roy Scheider delivered, A face like carved granite. The definitive American cop, agent, spook, Officer -Shark Killer...

The 1970's would have been empty without Roy Scheider.

[CourgetteEfficace]

@clashrogers ROY not RON :P

[Adefami]

mafia marseilaise and does anyone know the song in the beginning in the bar?

[ELGROOVER]

Adefami

Yup ☻

[steveo1622]

RIP Buddy,go get that bigger boat!!

[svatar]

in 1970 french connexion it's mafia marseilaise or mafia corse ?

[gunshooot]

les deux

[neotheone999]

great movie!!!!one of the best

[wallyworld]

Great movie. Just written about it on my site and embedded this trailer. Thanks.

[martinwilliamrandall]

Great film with a great sequal but does anyone remember the not so good Popeye Doyle starring Ed O Neil in 1986?

[deckie1985]

Marketing for the time Evan.... this was 1971, not 2007.

Different audience

[dcsw3]

great scene by mean gean hackman

[TheCreepingUnknown]

Not only William Friedkin's best movie, but possibly the best cop movie ever, the only one that even comes close is Dirty Harry

[CesMan83]

I agree...I thought it was awesome that Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle himself actually gets to face off with "Dirty" Harry Callahan in "Unforgiven"!

[toecutterr6]

Does Gene Hackman cry while watching a reel to reel tape and scream,"Turn it off!!",in this movie??

[CesMan83]

Nope, you're thinking of George C. Scott in "Hardcore"

[zim83]

Yep.

[mdumas43073]

I believe that would be Francis Coppola's "The Conversation".

[evanevans]

Wow. I guess, back when trailers were worse than they are now. Good lord. Why go see the movie? No one would even know what the heck it's about. What a waste of marketing for an excellent film.

[knobsandknockers]

One of the best movies of all time

[jackiescanlon]

Great film and wonderful score by the late, great Don Ellis.