The French Connection

The French Connection is a police film by William Friedkin from 1971 starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Fernando Rey.

The scenario of the film is based on the book "The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy" (1969) by Robin Moore.Moore's book is based on a real research by two detectives, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, the police narcotics brigade of New York. The research was aimed at intercepting a heroin delivery from France.

The French Connection was a gigantic success in cinemas. In 1973 was $ 51.7 million in the US alone converted on a budget of 1.8 million. During the ceremonies of the 1972 Oscars the film received five awards, including best picture. The film launched the career of both Friedkin as that of actor Gene Hackman.

In 2005, the film because of the cultural, historical and aesthetic value for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress American.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.Two detectives from the narcotics brigade of New York City, "Popeye" Doyle and "Cloudy" Russo keep a bar into the holes in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. They do a RAID and interrogations a suspect in an aggressive manner to his contacts to figure it out. After this incident, they drink in The Copacabana, a bar where many criminals come. Doyle sees how a young Italian, Salvatore "Sal" Boca, a number of Mafia members in the cotton explains. The detectives know the gangsters who at Boca at the table, they are all involved in narcotics.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 history
 * Scenario 4
 * 5 Actors
 * 5.1 Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
 * 5.2 Alain the mass grave
 * 5.3 Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso
 * 6 Production
 * 6.1 Locations
 * 6.2 Preproduction
 * 6.3 Shots
 * 7 Chase scene
 * 7.1 The scene in the movie
 * 7.2 Stunts
 * 7.3 the preparation
 * 7.4 lifelike recordings
 * 7.5 the flight with the metro train
 * 7.6 the death on the stairs
 * 8 History and fiction
 * 8.1 Characters
 * 8.2 Events
 * 9 Music
 * 10 awards and nominations
 * 11 Sequel
 * Sources 12
 * 13 external link

Along with Russo goes Doyle the young Italian and his wife Angie follow. It turns out that the Boca's there an expensive lifestyle, which they could never pay the deli that they float. It also turns out that Sal has committed crimes in the past. They soon find that Sal has a meeting with Joel Weinstock, a lawyer with connections with heroin smuggling. One of the informers of Doyle reports at the same time that the rumor on the streets is that there is a large batch of heroin is going to come. They get permission to Sal Boca's phone tapping. It soon becomes apparent that she bit, but they must now work together to horror of Doyle with the BNDD agent Mulderig, (Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs). Both men hate each other because of incidents from the past, such as the death of a police officer because of alleged negligence of Doyle.

Meanwhile, in the country, the heroin hidden in the car of the French television actor Henri Devereaux. The latter is the accomplice of drug smuggler Alain the mass grave. Not long after the mass grave has met with Sal and Weinstock. A sample of the heroin is tested and is of excellent quality. The value is 32.5 million dollars and Boca wants the deal now closing fast. But the more experienced Weinstock, which by now has noticed that Sal in being watched by the police, stresses that they better be careful and patient. This seems to work because Popeye and Russo are told that the case is discontinued. But the mass grave has the detectives also got an eye and he gives his bodyguard Nicoli instructed to kill Doyle. The attack failed, and Doyle put the pursuit on Nicoli. After a mad ride through the streets of New York, flight Nicoli to an above ground metro station where he hijacks a train. Doyle follows the train, which runs on an embankment, with the car until the train comes to a stop by the safety mechanism. If he tries the flights by Doyle, Nicoli shot.The attack put detectives on the case back.

Meanwhile the car with the drugs of the mass grave left behind near Sal Boca's shop. As car thieves try to strip parts of the car, the vehicle seized by the police. As Devereaux stole the car as specified, it must be returned to the owner within a certain time. Doyle and Russo know that the car full of heroin, but a search is useless. since it appears that the car has 60 pounds overweight, the drugs there really in it. They decide to search more rigorous and everything now strip the car almost bald. Eventually they find heroin under the outside thresholds of the car. The car is then transferred to Devereaux.

Meet Boca and Weinstock not long after the French drug dealers under the leadership of the mass grave in an abandoned factory on an island in New York. Money and drugs are exchanged and the gang members are gearing up to drive away. They soon encounter on the police that the area is surrounded. The mass grave and Boca flights back to the abandoned factory. Sal is shot dead and the other gangsters surrender.Doyle put together with Russo in pursuit on the mass grave. As Doyle sees someone in the distance, he shoots without warning. However, it appears agent Mulderig, who is killed by the shot. Apparently unfazed calls Doyle that he will get the mass grave and rushes to another room, while Russo lags behind the dead Mulderig. In the distance sounds a shot. The mass grave is never caught and Doyle and Russo are transferred after the affair of narcotics to the ordinary criminal investigation. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==For History<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1961, most of the heroin, originating from the far East and intended for export to the us, via Marseille, France the United States within smuggled, the so-called French connection (French Connection). Two detectives from the Narcotics Department of police of New York City, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso brought this smuggling a by in that year 60 kilos of heroin with a value of 32 million to intercept. The investigation ran from 7 October 1961 to 24 February 1962 and was one of the greatest successes of the Narcotics brigade. Egan and Grosso told about their surgery to writer Robin Moore out there the book "The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy" about wrote. The book was released in 1969 and was a great success.
 * Gene Hackman -Detective Jimmy ' Popeye ' Doyle
 * Fernando Rey -Alain The Mass Grave
 * Roy Scheider -detective Buddy ' Cloudy ' Russo
 * Tony Lo Bianco -Salvatore ' Sal ' Boca
 * Marcel Bozzuffi -Pierre Nicoli
 * Frédéric de Pasquale -Henri Devereaux
 * Bill Hickman -special agent Bill Mulderig
 * Ann Rebbot -Marie The Mass Grave
 * Harold Gary -Joel Weinstock
 * Arlene Farber -Angie Boca
 * Eddie Egan -Walt Simonson
 * André Ernotte -La Valle
 * Sonny Grosso -special agent Bill Small
 * Benny Marino -Lou Boca
 * Patrick McDermott -Howard
 * Alan Weeks – Willie Craven
 * Andre Trottier -Wyett Cohn

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film rights were purchased by producer Philip D'Antoni even before the book came out. He sold them in turn to National General Pictures and was appointed as producer of the film. Robin Moore was hired as a consultant, as he would get no entry for here on the end credits. Initially, Robert e. Thompson the Screenwriting, but that changed when William Friedkin was appointed as Director. Friedkin gave to screenwriter Alex J command to write the first version. But J didn't come out and in september 1969, he was replaced by Ernest Tidyman. The screenwriter got only $ 5,000 for his trouble. D'Antoni mentioned in a press release as an amount of $ 4.5 million budget for the film, this gave a shock National General that did not intend so much to give. The company dropped the production then as a brick fall, after which D'Antoni with the scenario the studios started to walk away. In the meantime, were the production rights expired. Robin Moore had then sold to producer David g. David, then in October 1970 again sold to 20th Century Fox. Fox proposed a budget of 2 million available and warned that Friedkin was to remain here under, otherwise he could get back to the television. ==Scenario<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Ernest Tidyman edited the book "The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy" by Robin Moore into a film scenario. Problem was that Moore's book was not a novel, but non-fiction based on real events. Director William Friedkin was excluded because a romanticizing, however, demanded that the scenario would remain close to the reality, it was a documentary film for eyes, as the French film Z by Costa-Gavras from 1969. For that reason the scenario also contains no details from the private life of the detectives, no love affairs or other subplots that have nothing to do with the drug case.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On the other hand, some could not accept Tidyman was the abundance of details of the original research of Egan and Grosso. The implementation described In the book is how detectives four months needed to handle the case. Five months with surveillances, chases, searches and other detective work. Tidyman brings that in the film back to a few weeks. The book also missed the thrill of wild chases and shootings.Detective Eddie Egan, who acted as an actor in the movie and also gave advice, said later that he had pulled his revolver in his entire career less than actor Gene Hackman (Popeye Doyle) throughout the film.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nevertheless, the atmosphere of the French connection Tidyman knew well see. Part of the scenario, dialogue, was ultimately not used. An important part of the dialogue was improvised by the actors on the set.This was due to Friedkins's obsession to make the movie as realistic and documentary as possible. Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso knew the street language and the language that real detectives and police people used. For example, the way Gene Hackman in his role as Popeye Doyle a suspect and the response comes straight from the "practice" of the real police detective Eddie Egan, as for example the phrase, "Do you pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?". This was intended to balance with the suspect from his apparent senseless questions. ==Actors<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="140" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film is mainly worn by the strong acting performances, but still had problems from the start with the selection of Friedkin actors. ===Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle<span class="mw-editsection" len="358" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For the role of Director William Friedkin as rough-hewn Popeye Doyle had his preferences. He wanted a star such as Paul Newman or Steve McQueen, but the studio was already in early stage clear that the actors much too high salary demands of these layers. So week Friedkin forward to the lesser-known actor Peter Boyle. But Boyle was not enthusiastic. He had just played in the 1970 film Joe in which a seemingly brave burger kill a group of hippies. The film was intended as a smear campaign against senseless violence, but it turned out that the cinema audience was running correctly on the violence. Boyle was so shocked that he refused to play any longer in films that glorified violence. He found the scenario of The French Connection here also covered.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The following choice of Friedkin, actor Jackie Gleason, fell not in good Earth at the studio. His film flopped Gigot (1962) was so that the studio the actor considered poison to the cinema sales. After the departure of the columnist Jimmy BreslinFriedkin selected Gleason. Breslin seemed the right choice and even rehearsed three weeks with Roy Scheider in preparation for the movie. He also had to eventually leave, mainly because Breslin couldn't driving, while the role that requirement. Robert Mitchum was equally in focus, but he found the story not good enough. Also actor Lee Marvin left the role to pass by. He just wanted to play as a police officer there in the scenario there was a conflict between his character and the police. He found that not back in the scenario. The following actors who were Charles Bronson came into the picture andJames Caan, but also who fell off, after which Friedkin almost entered on the lobby of actor Rod Taylor. Taylor fell anyway, after which the man he eventually Friedkin chose from the beginning had refused, Gene Hackman. It would be his breakthrough as an actor for the latter meaning. ===Alain The Mass Grave<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Actually wanted Director Friedkin the Spanish actor Francisco Rabal, from the French film Belle de Jour by Luis Buñuel for the role of villain Alain the mass grave. He asked his employee to this actor to contract, but Friedkin knew the name of Rabal not. The employee thought Friedkin the Spanish actor Fernando Rey and signed him. An understandable mistake because Rey starred in Buñuel's movies a lot. One tried to catch, but Rabal still when it became apparent that the Spanish actor, spoke neither English nor French. So stay and if Rey Rabal disappeared. Ironically, French of Rey not good enough found, after which the in post production was voiced again, his English-language dialogues were maintained. ===Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso<span class="mw-editsection" len="354" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The two detectives who led the investigation in 1961/62, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, also received a roll in the movie. Egan plays Walt Simonson, the boss of Popeye and Russo, and Grosso plays Bill small, the partner of special agent Mulderig. ==Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.===Locations<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Friedkin wanted as much as possible, to give the film a documentary character. So he filmed on location in Marseille, France, Washington, D.C., and New York City. In the latter city was filmed in Central Park, Park Avenue, the Lower East Side and parts of Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens. ===Preproduction<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">William Friedkin always said he had never read the book by Robin Moore and just based on the scenario. He wanted an atmosphere calls of realism, as in a documentary or as that is brought into the movie Z by Costa Cavras. In order to be able to empathize with their characters Roy Scheider and Gene Hackman ran a month a long time with the real detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso. Especially Hackman thought it was a horrible experience. Not only he came into contact with the seamy side of society with drug dealers, users, heroin hookers, street robbers and murderers, but he also met the often unorthodox methods of Egan and Grosso that often times went against suspects and violence used. During one of the patrols had to help curb a suspect, Hackman paralleling the necessary violence. It got so bad that he was afraid that the suspect would sue him. ===Recordings<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 30 november 1970 started the recordings, which would run until March 1971. The budget was set at $ 1.5 million and would amount to 1.8 million, $ 200,000 below the limit that the studio had asked. Friedkin made large-scale use of police officers. So play Egan and Grosso rolls in the movie and multiple police officers were used as extras. So are all the extras in the bar, which Doyle invades, in fact police officers.Friedkin wanted for everything realism and made sure that the heroin which is tested by the chemist of the gang, was real and no flour, as is usually in movies is used.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Not everyone found the realism of the film succeeded. The management of the police of New York was furious about the behavior of Doyle in the film. Eddie Egan, on whom the character of Doyle is based, was called to account. Eventually, he was fired on the accusation that he had mislaid evidence in certain cases. Egan was just for his retirement and now got no benefit. Later on intercession of Friedkin and Roy Scheider the case be reversed.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Realism was also there in the scene where actor Fernando Rey in his role of the mass grave, Gene Hackman in his role as Popeye from itself know to shake off in the subway. He jumps on the platform again and again and get back on the train, while Popeye follows him. This scene in the film takes a few minutes in, but took two days recording time. Everything was recorded on Times Square-Grand Central without the consent of the NYC Transit Authority. Sometimes to the reaction of the passengers to see that it's not directed Extras are. ==Chase Scene<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.===The scene in the movie<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The success of The French Connection is mainly thanks to Hackman's character but also to the legendary car chase. Friedkin tried to repeat the success of pursuit later in the film To Live and Die in L.A.. The Chase scene is in the middle of the movie and is the connection between the first and last part of the movie. Just when Doyle and Russo of the case be dropped off, the bodyguard of the mass grave an attack on Doyle.The detective pursues the murderer initially on foot. However, if the man escapes by in an above-ground metro train, rent a car (Doyle to the road and forcing a Pontiac Lemans from 1971 to steps. He drags the driver out of the car and pursues the metro train (who rides a slope) to the next station. The murderer, however, has since been forced to drive the driver of the train. After a heart-pounding pursuit rides the metro train against another train and automatically comes to a stop. The killer flight, but is shot by the now arrived Doyle in his back. ===Stunts<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The scene was filmed in Bensonhurst in Brooklyn. Apart from the ride from Doyle there were still five stunts include:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Between these stunts by we see recordings of Doyles car that runs under the train. These recordings were made in Bushwick, also in Brooklyn. ===The preparation<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Friedkin filmed the scene in a non chronological order spread over a period of five weeks. They were given permission to filming in Brooklyn as it was filmed between 10 am and 3 pm the recordings were made with a Arriflexcamera. According to Friedkin they had permission to film, but the authorities knew nothing of the dangerous stunts off. He said that Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso helped with the evasion of certain legal requirements. They were also responsible for enabling agents to the streets here and there off. The Pontiac LeMans (there were two identical copies used) really drove through the streets and Friedkin sat with a camera in the back seat to recordings by forward. At the wheel was stuntman Bill Hickman (who also had a roll as special agent Mulderig), Friedkin was entrenched behind a mattress as extra protection. There was also a camera placed on the front bumper and recording of the voorbijschietende Street. The camera was set at 18 frames per second shoot and to simulate the effect of high speed. Friedkin Later the scene mount on the music of Santana's Black Magic Woman . The music, however, is not to hear in the film. ===Real-life recordings<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Assistant Director Terence a. Donnelly led a team assistants that for every shot to stop circulating within the next five House blocks. They got help from the police, the majority consisted of agents who voluntarily contributed in their spare time. They had permission to the traffic lights on red to put on the part where the car drove. Other cars were driven by stunt people who tried not to touch the Pontiac. It happened often enough that they schampten each other and Friedkin left everything in the movie. Once it almost went really wrong. A man who had just left his house on his way to work had no idea of the shots. He got into his car and drove the junction at Stillwel Avenue and 86th Street on. his car was hit by the speeding Pontiac and the startled driver was reassured by the assistants. The damage to his car was Later reimbursed. The scene was in the film held. Truly a life actually happen. ===The flight with the metro train<span class="mw-editsection" len="356" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The shooting of the Pontiac were intersected with recordings of the hostage metro train. The metro line that is followed is the BMT West End Line (the B-train). The train runs on an increase above the ground, above Stillwell Avenue, 86th Street and New Utrecht Avenue in Brooklyn, and stops just north of the 62nd Street station. The recordings were made in the 42nd Street Shuttle and took two days to complete. The train consisted of the R-42-wagons 4572 and 4573 and R-17-wagon 6609. Since the NYC Transit Authority refused to the metro to control by an actor, became a real driver, William Coke, deployed. Initially was an actor hired for the role of the conductor, but did not show up. The real conductor, Bob Morrone, then took over the role. ===Death on the stairs<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Chase scene ends with the death of the murderer Nicoli. He is shot by Popeye in his back as he steps from the metro oprent. Friedkin got similar comments from the police who qualified this as murder. A policeman in New York may only shoot in self-defense. But Friedkin found this nonsense. Having regard to the character of Popeye was the only logical that he would shoot the man. He said that Eddie Egan, the detective who modeled for Popeye, had made no objection and that was sufficient for him. ==History and fiction<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The French Connection is based on fact. However, the film deviates significantly here and there off of the book by Robin Moore and the events of 1961/1962. People's names have changed and the events have been moved from 1961 to 1971. Screenwriter Ernest Tidyman has taken the liberty to add Chase scenes and shootings. The real drug case was much less spectacular. Below similarities and differences between film and reality. ===Characters<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * Doyle's car is hit by a car at a crossing, and drives with light damage by
 * The car is klemgereden by a truck from Doyle
 * The car of Doyle misses out on her a woman with a stroller and drive in full in a pile of trash
 * The car of Doyle drives a metal wegafscheiding as Doyles sight is blocked by a trailer
 * The car of Doyle drive against traffic
 * Popeye Doyle
 * Detective Edward Walter "Eddie" Egan nicknamed "Popeye" was a model for the character James "Jimmy" Doyle, in the film played by Gene Hackman. Egan worked together with his partner Sonny Grosso at the Narcotics Department of the police of New York City. Beginning 1962 they rolled a drug organization on who was responsible for smuggling heroin from Marseille to New York. They took 60 kilos of heroin with a street value of $ 32 million to complete. Egan, was along with Russo, Advisor to the film production and played a small role in the film, that of the boss of Popeye and Cloudy, Simonson. The bosses of Egan were not happy with the way the workings of Egan and Russo was brought into the picture. Suspects were beaten and racist language was. One tried to dismiss the accusation of withholding Egan of evidence. This did not go through, but Egan who already was afraid that after The French Connection was played out his role as a police officer because everyone now knew his working method, built a new career as an actor. He was to see to the early 1990s in various small roles in 22 movies and tv productions. He retired In 1984 to the police and moved to Florida where he died at the age of sixty-five in 1995.Apart from The French Connection and the French connection II there was a movie made based on Egan. Robert Duvall In 1973 played the role of Popeye in Badge 373. In all three films, the character Popeye the service revolver in his sock, a characteristic of Eddie Egan. Just like Popeye in the film was Egan a hard confession from a suspect, police officer who sometimes hit.


 * Cloudy Russo
 * Salvatore "Sonny" Grosso, nicknamed "Cloudy", was the partner of Egan and was a model for the character Buddy "Cloudy" Russo (in the film played by Roy Scheider). He was at the Department Narcotics detective and along with Egan responsible for rolling up a major drug organization beginning 1962. Along with Egan, he was technical adviser to the film The French Connection that was made about rolling up the gang. He also played a small role in the film, that of the Federal agent Small of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Russo had no cheerful character and had the reputation to make people depressed. This was the reason he "Cloudy" (cloudy) was mentioned. After his police career was Russo producer and was responsible for the production of 36 film and tv productions, such as the tv series Kojak. He also played small roles in several films.


 * Alain The Mass Grave
 * The former French resistance hero and businessman Jean Jehan Alain was a model for the mass grave character in the film. Jehan in the 1950s became involved in the smuggling of drugs. He grew to be one of the leaders of the French connection, in which drugs were smuggled from the far East via Marseille to New York went. Just like in the movie knew Jehan to flee after the detectives seized 60 kilos of heroin in Egan and Russo. Jehan fled to France where he was arrested in Paris . The French Government wanted to extradite him, presumably because of his performance during the Second World War and his connections with Charles De Gaulle.


 * Henri Devereaux
 * The accomplice of the mass grave, Alain Devereaux, was based on French television actor Jacques Angelvin. Angelvin was arrested and was four years in prison in New York. He then returned to France and was going to deal with real estate.


 * The Boca's
 * Gangster Pasquale "Patsy" Fuca was a model for the character Salvatore "Sal" Boca. His wife Barbara was the inspiration for Angie Boca, the wife of Sal, and Patsy Fuca's brother Anthony was the model for Lou Boca, the brother of Sal. The brothers together with their uncle Fuca made part of a smuggling gang who worked for some big Mafia families. Barbara was cleared of its share in the case and later wrote a book about her life with Robin Moore with Patsy Fuca.


 * Joel Weinstock
 * The lawyer Joel Weinstock, leader of the smuggling gang in the us, did not exist really. The character is composed of several other drug smugglers.

===Events<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The real events took place between October 7, 1961 and February 24, 1962, but, the film moved to the end of the 1960s. The whole survey was a lot more boring than the film shows, with week surveillances, tracking suspects and phone tapping via bled phones. So for example, the observation of the car took by Sal Boca not one night, but three full days. Sometimes the history in the details. The hat that Cloudy on the shelf at the rear window throws was in 1961 the sign for other policemen that a car with detectives who were engaged in a pursuit.


 * Picking your feet in Poughkeepsie
 * One of famous scenes in the movie is where Doyle and Russo interrogate a drug dealer in an alley. The furious Doyle yells the man: "Did you ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" The dealer is stunned, especially if Doyle continues and continues hammering on Poughkeepsie. Both the "interrogation technique" (Egan was known as a hard policeman who often used his fists) as the "Poughkeepsie"-trick are real.According to the commentary on the dvd of Director Friedkin is this based on real interrogation techniques of the duo. In the cast with his partner Sonny Grosso was Egan the ' bad cop ' (bad COP) and Grosso the ' good cop ' (nice COP). Grosso than questions that had to do directly with the crime. Then did Egan whether he was angry and came up with nonsense questions like, "did you pick your feet in Poughkeepsie? ', this, he suspects from their concentration and they became confused. They were looking for help with Russo which is nice and then did its normal questions. Eventually misspoke a suspect then often and well known eventually.


 * Santa Claus
 * At the beginning of the film to see how Doyle and Russo is a bar with drug dealers to keep an eye on. Russo stands behind a hot dog stand and Doyle is dressed as Santa Claus and sings Christmas songs with some children. Also this way of working comes from the practice of Egan and Grosso. When they observed suspicious spots in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the two discovered that many dealers had an eye on soon that there are narcotics detectives were in the neighborhood. They decided to change tactics and Egan's detective Father Christmas and sang songs with the neighborhood kids. At the time he saw that there was drugs were sold he sang (just like in the movies) "Jingle Bells", after which Grosso and other narcotics detectives raided the property.


 * The drugs and the Lincoln
 * In the film we see how the detectives search for the heroin hidden in a dark 1971 Lincoln Mk III 1971. In 1962, a 1960 Buick Invicta used. This car was according to the book by Robin Moore popular with drug smugglers because of the large space behind the front wheels. Just like in the movie was partly hiding under the outdoor thresholds. The mechanic of the police which helps in the dismantling of the car was played by Irving "Irv" Abrahams. In 1962 had Irv Abrahams Egan and Russo assisted in finding the heroin in the Buick. It was Sonny Grosso who ensured that Abrahams was allowed to play himself in the film.


 * End of the duo
 * At the end of the film it is suggested that Doyle and Grosso after rolling up drug smuggling the Narcotics Division had to leave and were transferred to different departments. This was not what was in it really happened. In reality the two detectives still remained four years in narcotics and rolled down two large smuggling operations before they were separated and transferred.

==Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Visit Doyle and Russo In the film the Copacabana nightclub, where they get interest for drug dealer Sal Boca. During that scene, we hear and we see a ladies trio the song "Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon" byJimmy Webb singing. The women's trio was called The Three Degrees and was founded in 1963 and had already several compounds known. At the time of the shooting consisting of Fayette Pinkney, Sheila Ferguson and Valerie Holiday. In 1970 they had released the album "Maybe" and had hits with "I Do Take You" and "you're The Fool". Their real appearance in the really existing Copacabana was filmed and used in the film. A few years after the film really broke The Three Degrees around 1973. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Academy Award 1971

<p lang="en" len="11" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nominations:
 * Best Film- Philip D'Antoni
 * Best Director- William Friedkin
 * Best Actor- Gene Hackman
 * Best Editing- Gerald B. Greenberg
 * Best screenplay based on existing material- Ernest Tidyman

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Golden Globe Awards
 * Best supporting actor- Roy Scheider
 * Best Camera Work
 * Best Sound

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">BAFTA Awards
 * Best Director (William Friedkin)
 * Best Film
 * Best Actor (Gene Hackman)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Directors Guild of America Award
 * Best Actor (Gene Hackman)
 * Best montage

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Writers Guild of America Award Best screenplay (drama) based on existing material (Ernest Tidyman) ==Sequel<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A sequel was made In 1975 , French connection II. The film did not reach the success of its predecessor. Only Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey still played with it. The film was also not directed by Friedkin but byJohn Frankenheimer.
 * Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement (William Friedkin)