The French Connection 1971 Watch Free in HD

The movie follows New York City detectives Popeye Doyle and Buddy Russo who hope to break a narcotics smuggling ring and ultimately uncover The French Connection. The more Popeye and Cloudy dig, the closer they get, to where Chanier agrees to an attempt on Popeye's life that results in a brutal train hijacking and automobile pursuit, and eventually to a showdown between police and mobsters outside the city.

Genre:

Action, Crime, Drama

Actors:

Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi, Frédéric de Pasquale, Bill Hickman, Ann Rebbot, Harold Gary, Arlene Farber, Eddie Egan, ...»

Director:

William Friedkin

Country:

United States

Release:

1971

IMDb:

7.7

Quality:

Duration:

104 min

Variety

Producer Philip D'Antoni and screenwriter Ernest Tidyman have added enough fictional flesh to provide director William Friedkin and his overall topnotch cast with plenty of material, and they make the most of it.

February 19, 2008

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Slant Magazine

Four decades after its initial release, William Friedkin's Oscar-sweeper The French Connection remains an electrifying achievement.

September 11, 2011

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Common Sense Media

Classic cop film with frequent profanity, violence.

March 11, 2015

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TIME Magazine

A knockout police thriller with so much jarring excitement that it almost calls for comic-book expletives. POW! ZOWIE!

February 20, 2009

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Empire Magazine

Hard as nail crime saga with a blistering central performance.

February 13, 2012

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CinePassion

Gangbusters adjusted to the new decade's grungy ambiguity

September 08, 2015

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Reel Film Reviews

...a classic bit of '70s filmmaking.

July 12, 2012

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Time Out New York

William Friedkin's symphony of long, sharp shocks is memorable for any number of sequences.

January 18, 2008

Village Voice

Popeye also earned counterculture points by mistakenly shooting a federal agent and exhibiting a conspicuous lack of remorse.

August 28, 2007

Guardian

To watch The French Connection now is to experience the shock of the old: a lost world of the city, and a lost style of film-making.

February 19, 2013

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New York Daily News

Its trigger-fast, explosive scenes and high-tension chase sequences (the one in "Bullitt" pales by comparison) will have you literally gasping for breath.

February 22, 2015

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