Word: friedkins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studied ambivalence towards ideals in The French Connection, never strong enough to undercut the conventional cops and crooks concerns of this "thriller," but nonetheless arresting in the social perspective it allows. Retelling the essentials of an actual case of heroin smuggling from France into New York. William Friedkin's film concentrates on the facts and mechanics of narcotics detective work, and the intense, long-term efforts of two cops to trace $32 million in heroin and to pinch the underworld business associates making the transaction...
...French Connection is a knockout police thriller with so much jarring excitement that it almost calls for comic-book expletives. POW!, ZOWIE! The film has all the depth of a mud puddle, but Director William Friedkin (The Night They Raided Minsky's) sets such a frantic pace that there is hardly a chance to notice, much less care. The connection is a French businessman (Fernando Rey) who arrives in New York City with a multimillion-dollar shipment of high-grade heroin stashed underneath a car door. By dumb luck, a couple of tough narcs get onto the deal...
...University in Washington (as had Michael in the film), but "only stayed about five minutes," before going on to Catholic University Drama School, which has produced such theatre people as Jon Voight, Walter and Jean Kerr, and Robert Moore, who made his New York directorial debut with Boys. (William Friedkin directed the film...
...screen-and often gains a great deal. Director William Freidkin ( The Night They Reided Minsky's and The Birthday Party ) has wisely chosen to "open up" the play very little. What scenes there are outside of Michael's claustrophobic east Sixties apartment work well with Crowley's conception. And Friedkin's superb eye for seine detail and character groupings greatly augment the power of the screenplay...