The French Connection (Blu-ray) R
There are no rules and no holds barred when Popeye cuts loose!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 6, 2012
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider & Tony Lo Bianco | |
Performer: | Bill Hickman, Marcel Bozzufi, Frederic de Pasquale, Ann Rebbot, Harold Gary & Sonny Grosso | |
Directed by | William Friedkin | |
Edited by | Jerry Greenberg | |
Screenwriting by | Ernest Tidyman | |
Composition by | Don Ellis | |
Produced by | Philip D'Antoni | |
Director of Photography: | Owen Roizman |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1971 -
Best Actor: Gene Hackman
Academy Awards 1971 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Ernest Tidyman
Academy Awards 1971 -
Best Director: William Friedkin
Academy Awards 1971 -
Best Film Editing: Jerry Greenberg
Academy Awards 1971 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
...a classic bit of '70s filmmaking.
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 4/4 --
Four decades after its initial release, William Friedkin's Oscar-sweeper The French Connection remains an electrifying achievement.
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Slant Magazine
...A best-picture Oscar that really holds up...
USA Today
A true Hollywood classic.
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Dark Horizons
A knockout police thriller with so much jarring excitement that it almost calls for comic-book expletives. POW! ZOWIE!
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TIME Magazine
...To watch it now is to appreciate more than ever Gene Hackman's uncompromising talent...
Entertainment Weekly
Producer Philip D'Antoni and screenwriter Ernest Tidyman have added enough fictional flesh to provide director William Friedkin and his overall topnotch cast with plenty of material, and they make the most of it.
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Variety
Product Description:
Released in the same year as Clint Eastwood's DIRTY HARRY (1971), William Friedkin's THE FRENCH CONNECTION marked the beginning of a new era of gritty, urban police dramas. Here, the theme of tough-cop amorality serves a conservative demand for a police-state crackdown on the domestic chaos and subversive youth culture of the Vietnam War period.
The film is based on the true story of two New York City police detectives and their investigation into a French heroin smuggling operation. THE FRENCH CONNECTION is perhaps best known for its infamous, masterfully filmed chase scene (influenced by Peter Yates' BULLITT) in which the lead policeman, Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman), recklessly drives a stolen car through oncoming traffic in pursuit of a sniper escaping by elevated train. The thrill of this crime drama is accentuated by director William Friedkin's early European influences, perhaps best represented by the handheld documentary-style visuals and Friedkin's claims that the Oscar-winning screenplay was frequently disregarded in favor of improvisation. THE FRENCH CONNECTION marked not only a significant change of course for his career, but also a stylistic shift that all of Hollywood would soon follow.
The film is based on the true story of two New York City police detectives and their investigation into a French heroin smuggling operation. THE FRENCH CONNECTION is perhaps best known for its infamous, masterfully filmed chase scene (influenced by Peter Yates' BULLITT) in which the lead policeman, Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman), recklessly drives a stolen car through oncoming traffic in pursuit of a sniper escaping by elevated train. The thrill of this crime drama is accentuated by director William Friedkin's early European influences, perhaps best represented by the handheld documentary-style visuals and Friedkin's claims that the Oscar-winning screenplay was frequently disregarded in favor of improvisation. THE FRENCH CONNECTION marked not only a significant change of course for his career, but also a stylistic shift that all of Hollywood would soon follow.
Keywords:
Action
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Thieves
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Drugs
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Cops
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Recommended
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Police
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Theatrical Release
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Crime
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New York City
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