A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.
Don Blakely
- FBI Agent Jerome Ripley
- (as Donald Blakely)
Edward Grover
- Captain Peterson
- (as Ed Grover)
Allan Rich
- Police Commissioner
- (as Alan Rich)
Larry Bryggman
- Pharmacist
- (uncredited)
Lenny Montana
- New York Italian Dockworker
- (uncredited)
Filomena Spagnuolo
- Mary the Counterwoman
- (uncredited)
Lee Steele
- Police Instructor
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThe movie is based on the real life theft of massive amounts of narcotics that were confiscated from the original "French Connection" case from the early 1960's where an approximate $400 million dollars of heroin were stolen from the NYPD property clerks office located at 400 Broome Street in Manhattan, NY. The scope and depth of this scheme are still not known, but officials suspect it involved corrupt NYPD officers who allowed Vincent Papa, Virgil Allesi, Anthony Loria and other notorious mafia members access to the NYPD property/evidence storage room, where hundreds of kilograms of heroin lay seized from the now-infamous French Connection bust, and from which the men would help themselves and replace missing heroin with flour and cornstarch to avoid detection.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Best of the Worst: Our DVD and Blu-ray Collection (2019)
Featured review
The story for this film evolved from a true life one by Sonny Grosso - the real life Roy Schieder character from 'The French Connection.' This film was made for 1975 television audiences , Richard Gere was gorgeous and charismatic, Cliff Gorman ('All That Jazz' and 'An Unmarried Woman') was one of the 70's most overlooked actors doing a fine nuanced job here, and the film has Joe Spinnell from 'Rocky' and 'Taxi Driver' in a pivotal supporting role. Honestly, what more do you need? An entertaining crime buster thriller that hasn't aged poorly like many others from that time period. Roger and out.
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- Oct 6, 2022
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