![]() In fact the movie gives the feel that he was mostly good at arresting (and beating up) the street dealers and junkies and this big bust was more the odd one out. This perhaps explains why he and his pal Russo is said to have been taken of narcotics four years later in the movie. ![]() Gene Hackman was probably the best choice for Popeye as he is good at playing the almost thuggish violent impulsive detective who works more with his guts than with his sense. At least you got to give credit for trying to make him speak French, for nowadays French in an American movie is just American English with a funny accent, just like the entire rest of world nowadays speaks American with a funny accent, even the neighbors. So they finally had to dub over the voice of Rey by someone who was able to speak proper French. Perhaps it is illustrative that the makers didn't much care for finding a real French actor to play the part of the French villain and chose a Spanish one instead. Actually the movie has two chases of note, both equally nonsensical, one in which Popeye Doyle, played superbly by Gene Hackman, an unconventional narcotics detective, shadows a French drugs dealer, played by Fernando Rey, an Spanish actor who never got the credits he deserves for all laurels go to Hackman and Scheider. Actually the movie has two chases of note, both equally nonsensical, one in which Popeye Doyle, played For a movie based on real events and purported to have a documentary style it is curious that it contains such flights of fancy as the car chase that made the French Connection iconic. For a movie based on real events and purported to have a documentary style it is curious that it contains such flights of fancy as the car chase that made the French Connection iconic.
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