The French Connection Poster
Gene HackmanJimmy Doyle
Fernando ReyAlain Charnier
Roy ScheiderBuddy Russo
Tony Lo BiancoSal Boca
Marcel BozzuffiPierre Nicoli
Frédéric de PasqualeDevereaux
Bill HickmanMulderig
Ann RebbotMarie Charnier
Harold GaryWeinstock
Arlene FarberAngie Boca
William FriedkinDirector
Robin MooreBook
William FriedkinScreenplay
Ernest TidymanScreenplay
Owen RoizmanDirector of Photography
Don EllisOriginal Music Composer
Philip D'AntoniProducer

The French Connection

William Friedkin · 1971 · 104 minutes · USA
The French Connection Poster

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.

Gene HackmanJimmy Doyle
Fernando ReyAlain Charnier
Roy ScheiderBuddy Russo
Tony Lo BiancoSal Boca
Marcel BozzuffiPierre Nicoli
Frédéric de PasqualeDevereaux
Bill HickmanMulderig
Ann RebbotMarie Charnier
Harold GaryWeinstock
Arlene FarberAngie Boca
William FriedkinDirector
Robin MooreBook
William FriedkinScreenplay
Ernest TidymanScreenplay
Owen RoizmanDirector of Photography
Don EllisOriginal Music Composer
Philip D'AntoniProducer
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