The French Connection is a 1971 action/thriller/crime film directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Fernando Rey.
Synopsis: Two Narcotics detectives from New York, Jimmy Doyle and Buddy Russo, with a wild and solitary life and very violent methods, are in trouble with their superiors due to the failure of some operations. Based only on vague clues, they follow a lead that leads them to discover a large shipment of drugs from Marseilles, managed by a mysterious French trafficker, Alain Charnier. Supported and supervised by two colleagues, Doyle and Russo begin a complex investigation that is based on exhausting stalking, stingy with progress and which will become a real obsession. Meanwhile Charnier evades the surveillance of the two detectives and, helped by his American accomplices Weinstock and Boca, by the assassin Pierre Nicoli and by the famous television actor Henry Deveraux, manages to unload the latter's car in the city, where the match is hidden. of drugs. Doyle and Russo are removed from the suitcase, but the two do not give up and, thanks to a tip-off, they manage to commandeer Devereaux's car in which, after an endless search, they find the drugs, hidden under the floorboards of the doors ; later they put it back in order not to create suspicions and to identify the place of the exchange.
The showdown sees both the criminal plan fail (with a shooting that leads to some deaths and many arrests among the offenders), and the main objective of the police, the capture of Charnier, who manages to escape; moreover, mistaking him for Charnier, Doyle accidentally kills one of the two colleagues who joined him and Russo in the investigation.
Synopsis: Two Narcotics detectives from New York, Jimmy Doyle and Buddy Russo, with a wild and solitary life and very violent methods, are in trouble with their superiors due to the failure of some operations. Based only on vague clues, they follow a lead that leads them to discover a large shipment of drugs from Marseilles, managed by a mysterious French trafficker, Alain Charnier. Supported and supervised by two colleagues, Doyle and Russo begin a complex investigation that is based on exhausting stalking, stingy with progress and which will become a real obsession. Meanwhile Charnier evades the surveillance of the two detectives and, helped by his American accomplices Weinstock and Boca, by the assassin Pierre Nicoli and by the famous television actor Henry Deveraux, manages to unload the latter's car in the city, where the match is hidden. of drugs. Doyle and Russo are removed from the suitcase, but the two do not give up and, thanks to a tip-off, they manage to commandeer Devereaux's car in which, after an endless search, they find the drugs, hidden under the floorboards of the doors ; later they put it back in order not to create suspicions and to identify the place of the exchange.
The showdown sees both the criminal plan fail (with a shooting that leads to some deaths and many arrests among the offenders), and the main objective of the police, the capture of Charnier, who manages to escape; moreover, mistaking him for Charnier, Doyle accidentally kills one of the two colleagues who joined him and Russo in the investigation.
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