6/12/2023 0 Comments Fcuk you wallpapers![]() ![]() ![]() Alternately: The French Connection was a high-profile true crime adaptation before true crime adaptations were cool. The film was also based on a work of nonfiction focusing on a 1962 effort to combat drug smuggling into New York City. Doyle is, in many ways, a terrible person - and yet he’s also a fascinating and contradictory character to watch on screen.īut the presence of an antihero wasn’t the only aspect in which the film feels ahead of its time. And it’s a testament to its staying power that it’s still prompting debate - particularly its central character, “Popeye” Doyle, memorably played by Gene Hackman. It’s now been 50 years since William Friedkin’s The French Connection first hit theaters.
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