Product: The French Connection I & II (1975)
Rating: 5.0
Gene Hackmann the great actor
It has been a long time since I have watched this movie. But I could not forget it. I have never seen a more dramatic action movie in my life. Gene plays Popeye Doyle a very highly motivated & tough New York cop who tries to crack a foreign drug ring. Doyle's tough, rule breaking & take no prisoners policeman who blurs the line between cop and criminal. The fact that this mean, brutal cop is somehow sympathetic is a testament to Hackman's great skills as an actor.One of my favorite scene is the film's famous car chase. As a drug smuggler races by above on an elevated train, Hackman speeds along in a car on the street below.Director William Friedkin's "The French Connection" is an exciting, jam packed cop action fest. Friedkin won the best directing award. You have to have it in your collection.