The French Connection
Doyle is bad news—but a good cop.
Overview
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
- Budget
- $1,800,000
- Revenue
- $41,200,000
- Production
- D'Antoni Productions, Schine-Moore Productions, 20th Century Fox
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Cast
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
Arlene Farber
Angie Boca
Eddie Egan
Simonson
André Ernotte
La Valle
Sonny Grosso
Klein
Alan Weeks
Pusher
Al Fann
Informant
Charles McGregor
"Baldy" (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- William Friedkin
- Writers
- Ernest Tidyman
- Producers
- Philip D'Antoni,G. David Schine
- Cinematography
- Owen Roizman
- Composer
- Don Ellis
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CinemaSerf
September 1, 2024
Though he's not top-billed here, I found it's Fernando Rey who delivers best in this brutal and authentic-looking story of trans-Atlantic drug smuggling. Popeye (Gene Hackman) and his pal Russo (Roy Scheider) are detectives in New York determined to bring down a network of cocaine importers who are bringing the lucrative white powder in from Marseille. They suspect that it's Charnier (Rey) who is masterminding the whole enterprise, but they can't pin anything down on him. He hides in plain sight…