Director William Friedkin cast real-life detectives. Only one is still alive today.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Philip D’Antoni, who won an Oscar as producer of “The French Connection” and produced another memorable crime drama with a classic ...

“The Connection” is the real-life story of the French Connection, as told from a French point of view and focusing around the city of Marseille, a center of drug trafficking in the 1970s. The French ...

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Jon Favreau reveals how William Friedkin's Oscar-winning neo-noir thriller inspired a scene from The Mandalorian and Grogu.

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This commentary’s title gives the impression that I’m writing about the 1971 film, “The French Connection,” starring Gene Hackman. I’m not. This is about the utterly insulting relationship between the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boyd Coddington may well have been the man that brought hot-rodding into the living rooms of Middle America, via his successful ...