)French Connection II
Gene Hackman returned for this 1975 sequel, in which his Popeye Doyle character sent to Marseilles and used as bait to flush out druglord Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey). Charnier kidnaps Doyle and shoots him full of heroin for three weeks; then Doyle gets dumped back to the French police. Doyle stays clean shaven all that time, and his clothing, although bloodstained, is far cleaner than it should have been after three weeks. I doubt that Charnier would have given Doyle courtesies like baths and razors at the same time he's filling Doyle with dope.
Check out both classic films; they frequently turn up double-billed on the Fox Movie Channel, or in the Encore family of channels. FMC runs its films letterboxed, Encore does sometimes. Of note are the strange music scores of both films, composed by the late Don Ellis.
In French Connection, the drugs are hidden in a Lincoln Mark III, that the police rip apart. They seem to get the car back together pretty quickly, while its owners wait at the police impound. (Spoiler - Why didn't they check the rocker panels for the drugs in the first place?)
I wondered how they mananged to get it together so quickly. Police Squad did a great spoof of this!
I wanted to see this movie in the 70s, my parents wont let me
.Then they started tossing my stuff , (clothes, books, cassetts, my homework,)out in front of me, at home!
I finally saw it prime time.
How about just discussing the movie? Your parents tossing your stuff out doesn't interest us (at least on this board -- maybe over on Rants somewhere is OK).
In the original French Connection, Popeye is tailing Charnier at the Grand Central Station subway stop. He goes to the same soda stand that Charnier patronized and orders a grape drink. We never see Popeye get the grape drink, but we do see him eat a candy apple. Which we never saw him order, and he later discards after taking one bite.
The blood used when people get shot (it's a very raw crime drama, so people are going to get shot in it) looks a bit fake compared to 2009 standards. That doesn't diminish the quality of the film. It was on HBO Signature today, and hasn't lost any of it's raw edge in the 38 years since its release.
Both French Connection movies are available on a special two-DVD set, celebrating 20th Century-Fox's 75th anniversary. More here. (Amazon wants $9.99, but I picked the set up at Best Buy for $7.99. The Steal of the Week. )