The French Connection

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Call Number: Blu-ray Drama French
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Drama French	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult A/V 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Drama French	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult A/V 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Drama French	1-week checkout	Due 05-03-2024

Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1971.
Special features: Disc 1: William Friedkin introduction to The French connection; commentary by William Friedkin; commentary by Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider; trivia track; isolated score track; enchanced for D-Box Motion Control Systems ; Disc 2: Deleted scenes; "Anatomy of a chase" featurette; "Hackman on Doyle" featurette; "Friedkin and Grosso remember the real French connection" featurette; "Scene of the crime" featurette; color timing The French connection; "Cop jazz:" the music of Don Ellis; "Rogue cop: the noir connection" featurette; "The Poughkeepsie shuffle" BBC documentary; "Making the connection: the untold stories of The French connection" featurette.
Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi.
Alain Chanier is a dapper businessman from Marseilles, France. He's actually a drug lord working on a big score. He wants to sell millions of dollars worth of 89% pure heroin. Salvatore Boca is a small-time hood who is his potential buyer. Boca is being tailed by two undercover New York City narcotics police officers, James 'Popeye' Doyle and Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo. The more Popeye and Cloudy dig, the closer they get. Chanier agrees to an attempt on Popeye's life that results in a brutal train hijacking and automobile pursuit. This eventually leads to a showdown between the police and mobsters outside the city.
Blu-ray disc, region A, widescreen (1.85:1); Dolby DTS-HD Master 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital mono., AVC @ 34.5 MBPS, 50 GB, dual-layer, 1080p High Definition.
This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Awesome submitted by mysterio on August 22, 2011, 9:27am Awesome

The French Connection Blu-Ray submitted by a2sue on August 31, 2019, 1:11am I'm glad that I finally had an opportunity to see the Blu-Ray of The French Connection. I'd been meaning to get around to it for years and it was worth the wait! I should've watched it sooner; I'll have to watch it again! Classic film.

Mostly a good cop story submitted by brooksza on July 25, 2022, 4:18pm More straightforward than I was seeing, but does a lot of what we see in The Wire years later. Not sure I enjoyed it as much as the reputation but the leads are solid and there's good process, chase scenes and camera work. The audio was a little harsh, especially metal on metal scraping. I thought the editing was also pretty rough.

Glad I saw it, would watch again or tune in if I caught this on tv.