William Friedkin's 1971 action thriller features a famous chase scene that has gone down as one of the best in cinema, but filming the scene was quite risky. Friedkin's The French Connection opened to ...
On this day, Nov. 4, in 1995, Eddie “Popeye” Egan, the tough-talking Irish American whose career as a New York City policeman inspired the Academy Award-winning film “The French Connection,” died ...