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French Connection II
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
1975 · Directed by John Frankenheimer · 119 min · Action · Crime · Thriller · 15 frames
Tagline
The French Connection was only the beginning. THIS IS THE CLIMAX.
Crew
- Screenplay: Laurie Dillon, Alexander Jacobs, Robert Dillon
- Cinematography: Claude Renoir
- Edited by: Tom Rolf
- Music: Don Ellis
- Production design: Jacques Saulnier
- Produced by: Robert L. Rosen
Cast
- Gene Hackman as "Popeye" Doyle
- Fernando Rey as Alain Charnier
- Bernard Fresson as Henri Barthélémy
- Philippe Léotard as Jacques
- Ed Lauter as General William Brian
- Charles Millot as Miletto
- Jean-Pierre Castaldi as Raoul
- Cathleen Nesbitt as The Old Lady
- Samantha Llorens as Denise
- André Penvern as Bartender
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, French
- Studios: 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $4,300,000
- Box office: $12,500,000
- Themes: france, heroin, detective, marseille, france, drug addiction, investigation, cold turkey, policeman, illegal drugs
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