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The tale of NYC cop "Popeye" Doyle and his partner, "Cloudy" Russo. One day, they stumble upon a huge shipment of heroin from France. The trail leads to notorious drug kingpin, Alain Charnier. [[
A classic piece of seventies Hollywood cinema, '''''The French Connection''''' made a star of [[Gene Hackman]] and also starred [[Roy Scheider]]. Based on the true story of the two cops who would stop the drug trafficking between France and the US, it was a huge success, both financially and critically. The film won many [[Academy Award]]s, for Best Film Editing, Best Actor (Hackman), Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture. Thus it would come close to winning the Big Five, but lacked a female main character.
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* [[Abandoned Warehouse]]: The final scene takes place in one.
** Technically its an abandoned mental hospital.
* [[Baby Carriage]]: A runaway carriage hampers the car chase.
* [[Based
* [[Beard of Evil]]: Alain Charnier, AKA "Frog One".
* [[Car Chase]]: One of the most famous in movie history. While ''[[Bullitt]]'' was the [[Trope Maker]], this was the [[Trope Codifier]].▼
** The sequel, meanwhile, climaxes with a chase ''on foot'' that's pretty epic in its own right.▼
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" Also becomes [[Arc Words]].
▲* [[
* [[Chained to A Bed]]▼
▲** The sequel, meanwhile, climaxes with a chase ''on foot'' that's pretty epic in its own right.
* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Doyle.
* [[Crapsack World]]: Just like [[Midnight Cowboy]] and [[Taxi Driver]], this is set in the era of "[[Gerald Ford|Ford]] to City: Drop Dead".
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* [[Nice Hat]]: Popeye's porkpie hat.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: Doyle is forced to drop the investigation by his superiors. One of the traffickers tries to assassinate him. Doyle gets the investigation re-opened.
* [[Real Person Cameo]]: Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso (the real-life inspirations for Popeye Doyle and Cloudy Russo) appear in the film as Simonson and Klein, respectively.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: The real "Popeye" Doyle (or "Popeye" ''Egan'', rather--his name was changed for the film) thought at first that the famous image of Hackman shooting the criminal at the top of the steps was offensive since he would never actually shoot someone [[In the Back]], but he realized later on how the moment worked on film and forgave it.
▲* [[Sequel]]: 1975's ''French Connection II'', which has Doyle traveling to Marseilles in pursuit of Charnier, finding himself a [[Fish Out of Water]] in the French city, and being forced into heroin addiction by Charnier's henchmen. Unlike the original, the sequel's plot is entirely fictional.
* [[Skeleton Key Card]]: Cloudy breaks into Popeye's apartment with a credit card.
* [[Stop or I Will Shoot]]: 'Popeye' guns down the EL assassin as he [[In the Back|turns to flee]], despite the fact that a) he's now unarmed, and b) Popeye couldn't have been sure the man was the same guy who'd taken a shot at him earlier, as there was little opportunity to get a clear look at his face.
* [[Translation Convention]]: Averted, with a lot of (subtitled) French dialogue.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]
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