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...brave sight to see a man acquire courage, and Journey's End shows us that too. This is a spare, sharp, impeccable revival, never quaint, never condescending, never squandering any surplus energy on belaboring the obvious by bad-mouthing war. The entire cast, and especially Peter Egan's taut, tart, nerve-shelled Captain Stanhope, deserves medals at the curtain...
...boss (Eddie Egan, late of The French Connection) takes this as an affront. Besides, the Kansas City boys are skimming off a healthy slice of the corporate profits. So he dispatches Nick Devlin (Lee Marvin) to teach Kansas City a little respect...
Borrowed Tricks. Hackman is a sort of blue-collar actor, slightly embarrassed about art but avid about craft. For his Oscar-winning role as the obsessive, foul-mouthed Popeye Doyle, he served an apprenticeship in Harlem with Eddie Egan, the real-life detective on whose exploits The French Connection was based. "It was scary as hell," Hackman says. "We'd burst into a crowded bar, and Egan would put on a drill instructor's voice, flat and unemotional, and yet authoritative. If anyone talked back, his voice would go a pitch higher. He always won." In the film...
...will later select 80 million acres for parks, forests and wildlife refuges. The remaining 152 million acres will be available for claims by the state and by native groups. The move was praised by conservationists, but it set off a roar of disapproval in Alaska, where Governor William A. Egan promptly announced that the state would go to court "to preserve its sovereignty." The Governor contends that the Interior Department has filed illegally on 46 million acres to which the state laid claim in January...
...splashy shootings. When the detectives have all the information they can get, Doyle exacts a last, unnecessary ounce of submission by forcing him to confess to nonsense accusations by the threat of more beating. The nonsense-accusation sequence is a suspect-baiting device Friedkin picked up from Detective Eddie Egan, the cop on whom Doyle's character is based, who plays the narcotics division chief to Russo and Doyle (Gene Hackman) in Connection and who is soon to star in a film vehicle called Fuzz. The incident goes under the generic title "police harrassment" and is, no doubt, only...