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From this Saturday at 2am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 7am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movie The French Connection from 1971.
The French Connection is a 1971 American action-thriller film directed by William Friedkin.
The screenplay, written by Ernest Tidyman, is based on Robin Moore's 1969 non-fiction book The French Connection.
It tells the story of New York Police Department detectives Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo, whose real-life counterparts were Narcotics Detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, in pursuit of wealthy French heroin smuggler Alain Charnier.
The film stars Gene Hackman as Popeye, Roy Scheider as Cloudy, and Fernando Rey as Charnier. Tony Lo Bianco and Marcel Bozzuffi also star.
At the 44th Academy Awards, it won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor (Hackman), Best Director (Friedkin), Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay (Tidyman).
It was nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Scheider), Best Cinematography, and Best Sound Mixing.
Tidyman also received a Golden Globe Award nomination, a Writers Guild of America Award, and an Edgar Award for his screenplay.
A sequel, French Connection II, followed in 1975 with Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey reprising their roles.
The American Film Institute included the film in its list of the best American films in 1998 and again in 2007.
In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Directed by: William Friedkin.
Produced by: Philip D'Antoni.
Screenplay by: Ernest Tidyman.
Based on: The French Connection by Robin Moore.
Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco and Marcel Bozzuffi.
Music by: Don Ellis.
Cinematography: Owen Roizman.
Edited by: Gerald B. Greenberg.
Production company: Philip D'Antoni Productions.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox.
Release date: 7 October, 1971 (United States).
Running time: 104 minutes.
Country United States
Language: English and French.
Budget: $1.8 million.
Box office: $51.7 million (US), and $75 million (worldwide)theatrical rental).
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