The French Connection

In Marseille, an undercover police detective is following a wealthy French criminal who runs the largest heroin-smuggling syndicate in the world. In New York City, detectives Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo (Roy Scheider) are conducting an undercover stakeout in Brooklyn. Charnier plans to smuggle $32 million worth of heroin into the United States by hiding it in the car of a French television personality.

Credits

Cast: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider

Copyright

Registered 7Oct71 · LP40443 (Jan-Jun 1972) Copyright holder: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp Production company: Schine-Moore Productions

Sources

U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — title, year, creator, length, copyright
Wikidata · Q220735 ↗ — country

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