I didn’t appreciate how great the French Connection was until like the fourth or fifth viewing. But my favorite scene still is the frogs having the delicious French food for lunch while Doyle toils in the cold with bad pizza and hot chocolate.
I have found that my love of any movie often revolves around a great food scene. Not sure why but that’s just I.
Certainly the best car chase scene ever made.
It's hard to think of a better one.
Bullitt and To Live and Die In L.A. come to mind, but neither is as much based on a true story, at least to my understanding.
I suppose the case could be made that L.A. Confidential is also based on reality; it too is surely one of the best copy movies ever made.
One of the first CIA protected dope operations!
“In its first year of existence, agency operatives help the Mafia seize total power in Sicily and it sends money to heroin-smuggling Corsican mobsters in Marseille to assist in their battle with Communist unions for control of the city’s docks. By 1951, Luciano and the Corsicans have pooled their resources, giving rise to the notorious `French Connection’ which would dominate the world heroin trade until the early 1970s.”
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvrwPEgHq_A
Slightly related as the chicken franchise was named after Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle, a fictional character from the ‘French Connection’ movie played by Gene Hackman,
RIP Sonny
So Popeye was Sonny?
In 1971 the French Connection winning all those Oscars was exactly what the cops in New York City needed, We were under attack from scumbags who killed 16 of us in an 18 month stretch; and the Knapp Commission was pounding us every day. RIP Sonny and Eddie.
RIP.