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...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...
...quit public life. Though he continued to make recordings (including the cleverly innovative Pet Sounds), he sometimes would not come out of his Bel Air house for six months at a stretch. Among other things, he erected a tent that filled his living room (for top-secret Beach Boy pow-wows), and covered the floor of his dining room with a huge sandbox...
...North Vietnamese are so barbaric that they continue to hold our POW's regardless of what we do with regard to withdrawal, then we're going to keep a residual force in no matter how long it takes," he said...
They had vowed to "stay until we're busted" after marching to the Court and finding all entrances locked. When police started their arrests, the veterans walked down the steps in single-file with hands clasped behind their heads in POW fashion...
...FREE CALLEY reads the bumper sticker (next to another reading "Don't Forget the POW's"). After all, war is war and people get killed, so why pick on one man for doing what happens all the time...