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Release Date:
21 May 1975 (USA)
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THE FRENCH CONNECTION was only the beginning-THIS is the climax
Plot:
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marsailles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 2 nominations
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Gene Hackman | ... | Doyle | |
| Fernando Rey | ... | Alain Charnier | |
| Bernard Fresson | ... | Barthélémy | |
| Philippe Léotard | ... | Jacques (as Philippe Leotard) | |
| Ed Lauter | ... | General Brian | |
| Charles Millot | ... | Miletto | |
| Jean-Pierre Castaldi | ... | Raoul | |
| Cathleen Nesbitt | ... | The Old Lady | |
| Samantha Llorens | ... | Denise | |
| André Penvern | ... | Bartender | |
| Reine Prat | ... | Young Girl on the Beach | |
| Raoul Delfosse | ... | Dutch Captain | |
| Ham-Chau Luong | ... | Japanese Captain (as Ham Chau Luong) | |
| Jacques Dynam | ... | Inspector Genevoix | |
| Malek Kateb | ... | Algerian Chief (as Malek Eddine) |
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119 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
UK:X (original rating) |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
UK:18 (video rating) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba) |
Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
Iceland:16 |
Brazil:16 |
Canada:18A (video rating) |
Finland:K-16 (1988) (video rating) |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-18 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:R |
West Germany:16
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In planning the climactic chase in which Doyle pursues Charnier across Marseilles, director John Frankenheimer wasn't aware that Gene Hackman suffered from knee problems. Despite this, Hackman went ahead and filmed the entire chase without a double, badly inflaming his knee by the time he was through. He has said that Doyle's expressions of pain and determination as the chase progressed didn't require much acting.
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Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, when Doyle arrives with his suitcases at the dock, a girl in a flowered dress and a boy in a yellow shirt run past him towards his right-hand side. In the next shot, when we see Doyle from the front, the same girl and boy are climbing up on a fence on his left-hand side.
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Quotes:
Brigidier General William Brian, Charnier's Accomplice:
[in a restaurant,drinking wine] I wish this Blanc De Blanc would travel,I'd like to take twenty cases with me back to Washington.
Alain Charnier: All you Americans have that misconception.Wine will travel,it is people who have difficulty.
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Alain Charnier: All you Americans have that misconception.Wine will travel,it is people who have difficulty.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Pale Blue Balloons (2008)
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An outstanding sequel to Friedkin's celebrated original. Hackman's 'Popeye' Doyle continues his pursuit of Fernando Rey's drug lord Charnier in the latter's native France. Shot on location in Marseille, the film often has a feeling of latter-day spaghetti (onion?!) western with long spans of impenetrable, untitled French. Doyle's attempts to integrate himself personally and professionally into this alien town are as well handled as anything in the film.
The film deals in obsession and addiction. Just as the last film closes with Doyle abandoning reason to continue his pursuit, so this one develops this theme. Gene Hackman's bitter, awkward, tough-but-pitiful performance is the stuff of an Oscar winner who doesn't even know how to spell complacency.
John Frankenheimer does an almost impossible job very well in following Friedkin's visual temperament in support of Hackman. Marseille is filmed ruthlessly, grimy and crumbling. There is a great deal of hand-held work, culminating in extraordinary but judiciously used PoV shots in the final, remarkable chase. It's also an economical film, using unscripted action to advance the narrative. Artfully real but uncontrived, it's a very grown-up action thriller. 8/10