![]() ![]() The French Connection was headed by the Corsican criminals Paul Carbone, who ran the labs, François Spirito, Antoine Guérini, and Auguste Ricord, Paul Mondoloni and Salvatore Greco. The French Connection drug route went through Turkey to France and then to the United States through Canada. The book mentions that Lucky Luciano died in 1962 and pondered whether it was the blown international deal that bugged him to death. Jehan reportedly continued pushing dope all over Europe throughout the ’80s and died of old age at his home in Corsica. Being a national hero is a get out of jail free card in the progressive country renowned for its cold soup and creamy pastries. Friedkin contends that Jehan was part of the French Resistance to Nazi Occupation during World War II, and that trumps jail time to French authorities. The book explains how grease monkeys did it.Īccording to Grosso, Corsican Jean Jehan was the kingpin of the French Connection heroin ring during the 1950s and into the 1960s, but he was never arrested for international heroin smuggling. The film captures the mechanical wonder of this drug-delivery system sedan by tearing it up and putting it back together to justify the weight differential caused by hidden drugs. Angelvin can’t wait to get behind the wheel and he’s got no idea what’s under the hood, in the chassis, or behind the panels. The car is a thing to behold on the page. The Frenchman with the connection brings hundreds of pounds of junk through a beautiful new Buick driven by French TV personality Jacques Angelvin. In the book Egan and Grosso follow Fuca through a huge heroin deal the low-level Mafiosi is making with Jean Jehan. A lot of junkies went into forced detox on account of this case. The 1962 pinch pulled in 64 pounds of “pure” heroin, worth about $220 million on the street. The ensuing investigation led the two narco cops to one of the biggest heroin busts in history. The book focuses on New York Police Department Narcotics detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso as they follow a hunch named Pasquale “Patsy” Fuca out of the Copacabana nightclub to an international heroin ring. It’s a fictionalized adaptation of the 1969 true crime book The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy by Robin Moore. The screenplay was written by Ernest Tidyman. The movie also starred Fernando Rey and Tony LoBianco as the criminals. “Popeye” Doyle and Roy Scheider as his partner, Buddy “Cloudy” Russo. It was directed by William Friedkin, produced by Philip D’Antoni, and starred Gene Hackman as Det. The French Connection screeched into theaters in 1971. Things that are cliché in cop movies now were invented here. The French Connection is probably the closest Hollywood has come to a true on-the-street crime procedural in a blockbuster. The movie should be boring with all that waiting around and stealthy shadowing, but the pacing and the performances keep it moving at a breakneck pace comparable to chasing a subway. It changed the look and the dynamic of law enforcement on film by focusing on the worn heels and tires of street-level surveillance. It was that first sniff that hooked the moviegoing public on Hollywood’s war on drugs. The French Connection is a seminal work in cop movies. ![]()
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