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...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 a generalized adaptation from many such episodes in Egan's career...
...FRENCH CONNECTION. With the narcs in old Manhattan. Frenetic, resolutely naturalistic, with a car chase that is already a classic. Gene Hackman is memorable as a tough detective named Popeye...
Cisco (Kris Kristofferson) kept money in his jeans for a while by dealing dope, but he quit after getting busted twice. His arresting officer (Gene Hackman) visits him one day with a proposition. The cop is in need of money fast. He has got hold of a shipment of high-quality grass and wants Cisco to deal it. Then maybe he will shade his testimony on the two busts to Cisco's advantage. Cisco loads the stash into his guitar case and hits the street...
Kristofferson, himself something of a rock star, eases through his first dramatic role in sleepy, sardonic style. Karen Black has played her part, or a slight variation on it, so many times before that even her presence is a cliche. Gene Hackman's psychopathic cop, already on view in The French Connection, is also familiar but a good deal more substantial...
Many of the scenes were shot along the East River, around ramshackle warehouses and worn tenements that give the movie a sense of gritty realism. The actors who play the cops are so well cast that they seem to have grown up next door to the precinct house. Gene Hackman plays Popeye Doyle, who likes to ogle girls in boots, break heads and bust blacks; Roy Scheider is his dogged, if only slightly less compulsive, assistant. Eddie Egan plays their boss with bullish authenticity-as well he might since he is an ex-cop who figured in the actual incident...