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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Popeye Doyle standing in front of a crowd of police in The French Connection (1971) - Bettmann/Getty Images Even during a decade ...

LOS ANGELES -- William Friedkin, the filmmaker behind 1973's adaptation of novelist William Peter Blatty's horror novel "The Exorcist," has died at age 87. Stephen Galloway, dean of Dodge College of ...

Paul Thomas Anderson had a strong visual sense of what he wanted "One Battle After Another" to look like. Cinematographer ...

The death of Hollywood icon Gene Hackman saddened millions — and a legendary ex-NYPD detective who tutored him in his most famous screen role in “The French Connection” is feeling his loss more than ...

Sonny Grosso, the true-blue New York City police detective who with his gung-ho partner made the record heroin bust that inspired the Oscar-winning film “The French Connection,” died Wednesday at his ...

Jeremy has more than 2200 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

The French Connection star Tony Lo Bianco has died at the age of 87 following a battle with cancer. In the Oscar-winning action thriller, Lo Bianco played store owner and mobster Salvatore “Sal” Boca ...

In his real life, retired NYPD Detective Randy Jurgensen busted cop killers, drug dealers and street corner goons — but in his reel life he was the guy who whacked the godfather’s first born. During ...