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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gene Hackman stars in William Friedkin's 1971 classic, The French Connection, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York. "The French Connection" is based on Robin Moore's 1969 book of the same name. Both films ...

A thrilling, economical procedural, William Friedkin’s 1971 smash hit “The French Connection” has one thing on its mind: Immediacy. Every single element of this film has the goal of keeping the ...

The French Connection is a seminal work in cop movies. It was that first sniff that hooked the moviegoing public on Hollywood’s war on drugs. It changed the look and the dynamic of law enforcement on ...

In a biography of Howard Hawks, author Todd McCarthy writes that when William Friedkin was living with Hawks' daughter Kitty in the early 1970s, Friedkin asked the famed director what he thought of ...