Gene Hackman	Jimmy Doyle
Fernando Rey	Alain Charnier
Roy Scheider	Buddy Russo
Tony Lo Bianco	Salvatore Boca
Marcel Bozzuffi	Pierre Nicoli
Frédéric de Pasquale	Henri Devereaux
Bill Hickman	Bill Mulderig
Ann Rebbot	Mrs. Marie Charnier
Harold Gary	Joel Weinstock
Arlene Farber	Angie Boca

Director	William Friedkin
Producer	Kenneth Utt Philip D'Antoni
Writer	Howard Hawks Ernest Tidyman
Cinematography	Owen Roizman
Musician	Don Ellis

The fictional retelling of an actual drug smuggling ring active in the 1960's and 1970s and referred to as the "French Connection," the film follows the exhasuting investigation of two New York City cops, Det. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Det. Buddy "Cloudy" Russo (Gene Schieder), as they investigate the activities of French heroin smuggling antagonist Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey). As the two cops delve deeper and deeper into Charnier's activities they uncover the one of largest drug smuggling operations in the world, and become targets themselves.

Edition Details Audience Rating R (Restricted) Country USA Language English Distributor 20th Century Fox Barcode 024543163589 Region Region 1 Release Date 2/8/2005 Packaging Keep Case Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3, Letterboxed) Fullscreen (4:3, Pan & Scan) Widescreen (1.85:1) Subtitles English; Spanish; English (Closed Captioned) Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] Dolby Digital Stereo [English] Dolby Digital Mono [French] Dolby Surround [English] Dolby Digital Surround [English] Layers Single Side, Single Layer No. of Disks/Tapes 2 Features Disc 1: Color Closed-captioned

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