Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) and his partner in the narcotics bureau in New York learn a drug shipment is coming in to a starved climate and stumble on to a Frenchman who is trying to smuggle in the drugs by an unorthodox method. Exciting car chase involving a city train. Great story based on real events told in a straightforward way without excess and frills which makes THE FRENCH CONNECTION much more palatable allowing the force of the story to hit you directly with little hindrance coming from the filmmaking. I thought the way the drugs were hidden kewl and it etched strongly on my memory. This is how they should make police movies. [4.8 stars]
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