Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
- drug dealer
- new york city
- police brutality
- drug smuggling
- undercover agent
- gangster
- heroin
- marseille
- france
- paranoia
- night life
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Marcel Bozzuffi — Pierre Nicoli
- Frédéric de Pasquale — Devereaux
- Bill Hickman — Mulderig
- Ann Rebbot — Marie Charnier
- Harold Gary — Weinstock
- Arlene Farber — Angie Boca
- Eddie Egan — Simonson
- André Ernotte — La Valle
- Sonny Grosso — Klein
- Benny Marino — Lou Boca
- Patrick McDermott — Chemist
- Directed
- William Friedkin
- Written
- Ernest Tidyman
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 2,199 ratings
- Studio
- D'Antoni Productions, Schine-Moore Productions, 20th Century Fox
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1971 · You’re hereThe French Connection
Where it starts.
French Connection II
1975
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
