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The 1971 film The French Connection is available to rent on Apple TV, Fandango at Home and Prime Video. It can also be purchased from the aforementioned streamers or from YouTube and Google Play ...

The French Connection was one of the few films that reconciled the opposing ways of storytelling. On the one hand, it was radical and new in its use of jazz, hand-held camera and its hyper-realist ...

FRENCH CONNECTION II, 1975 Bernard Fresson, Gene Hackman Photo : 20th Century Fox Film Corp./courtesy Everett Collection ...

In the 1971 film, " The French Connection," Hackman stars as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, an NYPD detective who "fights dirty and plays rough" battling criminals in the Narcotics Bureau.

The French Connection II was released in 1975 with Hackman and Rey reprising their roles as Doyle travelled to Marseille to track down Charnier, who escaped justice at the end of the first film.

In “The French Connection,” the 1971 film directed by William Friedkin, Popeye’s relentless pursuit of heroin dealers turns into something almost akin to mania.