bennyhillifier 1hr 44mins // directed by:William Friedkin // featuring:Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
Gene Hackman stars as detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in this classic tale of cops and robbers from director William Friedkin (The Exorcist). The film is true-to-life, based on the largest narcotics seizure of all time in 1962. This thriller features an unsympathetic protagonist - the vulgar, brutal, tireless, unlikable, maniacal and sadistic "Popeye" Doyle as the main undercover New York City narcotics cop, who toes the thin line between fighting crime and committing crimes himself. He passionately and obsessively pursues drug pushers with his partner Buddy "Cloudy" Russo (Roy Scheider). One of the film's posters emphasized: "Doyle is bad news - but a good cop."
Winner of 5 Academy Awards; Best Director (William Friedkin), Best Actor (Hackman with his first Oscar), Best Adapted Screenplay (Ernest Tidyman), Best Editing (Jerry Greenberg), and Best Picture.
