Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
The French Connection is of 1 hour(s) and 44 minute(s). It is Produced By: D'Antoni Productions, Schine-Moore Productions, 20th Century Fox. It was released on 1971-10-09. It has the tagline: Doyle is bad news—but a good cop. It has an average vote of 7.525 on TMDB.
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