One of the most exciting chase films ever made' that would go on to win five Oscars will be shown on TV tonight. The French ...

This is how we encounter Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle (Gene Hackman) in William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971). He may be dressed as Father Christmas but he is an undercover cop with a ...

Eastwood had to convince Hackman to join him on Unforgiven. Gene Hackman as Popeye Doyle in 1971’s ‘The French Connection.’ ‘I don’t want to do another violent picture, I’m tired of it.

In the 1971 film, directed by William Friedkin ... ‘The Conversation,’ ‘The French Connection,’ ‘The Poseidon Adventure,’ ‘Unforgiven’ — tough yet vulnerable.

but he turned The French Connection down on the grounds it was too close to Peter Yates’ Bullitt (1968) in which he had appeared a couple of years before. McQueen might have made an excellent ...