The French Connection: Why audiences root for Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle against all odds
A drug dealer with a knife bursts out of the ... in William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971). He may be dressed as ...
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Gene Hackman refused to re-watch the famous film that gave him his 1st Oscar
One of Gene’s most memorable roles, which also won him his first Oscar in the Best Actor category, is in the 1971 crime drama The French ... drug scene.” He acknowledged that The French ...
The French Connection: Why audiences root for Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle against all odds
More than half a century after William Friedkin’s revolutionary action film stunned viewers, Geoffrey Macnab looks at how the rogue cop at its centre manages to be so perversely sympathetic ...