The French Connection had an actual sequel. It starred that guy who played Al Bundy on married with children.
I remember watching Seven Ups in the Theatre about early seventies. Very exciting. When I see it on tv it brings me back to how good on the large screen when I first saw it.
I have a really hard time watching action flicks made before: cell phones, internet, prolific security cameras, bullet proof vests, modern footware, metal detectors, modern car tires shocks and brakes, etc. These things profoundly change how everything in an action film would actually go down.
A remake of the same story as last time? I suppose it is an entertaining story. I watched the FC once but I don’t support Hollyweird anymore.
Also had the best car chase scene ever (and still ranks second) until Bullitt came along.
No it is not. TFC was so successful that 2oth Century Fox wanted to capitalize on the formula. They hired Sonny Grasso (Roy Scheider in both films) to create another story based on himself (Buddy). Seven Ups was much more fiction than TFC but styistically, dramatically structurally and generically they are first cousins.
Hi, Lazlo and comapny:
I just finished a guest review at ‘FlixChatter’ regarding ‘The French Connection’. A classic in and of itself.
http://flixchatter.net/2012/04/26/classic-flix-review-the-french-connection-1971/
‘The Seven Ups’ isn’t a sequel at all. Though both films share a large chunk of the same cast, crew, stunt men and drivers. In a tale about an elite team of New York cops who put criminals away for seven years or up. Hence, the tile ‘The Seven Ups’.
Roy Scheider and Tony Lo Bianco again rock out loud in portraying a driven detective going after an equally driven bank robber and diamond thief. The film also reveals the outstanding durability of a Chevy Nova during a high speed chase.