Product: French Connection [VHS] (1971)
Rating: 5.0
When Cops Were Cops, Best of the Best
One of the best car chase scenes of all time, no special effects. Filmed on 86th Street and New Utrecht Avenue in Brooklyn. Movie from 1971, listen to the dialogue in the movie and see how police described people (not politically correct today) and all their code words. Gene Hackman and Roy Schneider at their best (even though each had much bigger roles latter on in life). Filmed on location in New York City, trains, hotels, police stations, very few hollywood sets if any. Taking the car carrying drugs apart was fantastic. I have a copy of the movie and whenever plays on cable also watch it. How hard work really breaks a case, dectectives had no computers, lasers, cell phones, just their own smarts and very very hard work in breaking a case. Their own street smarts breaks the case, very very exciting movie, how it really happened.