The French Connection

Directed by: William Friedkin

Based on the book by: Robin Moore, Edward M. Keyes

Screenplay by: Ernest Tidyman, Howard Hawks,
Cinematography by: Owen Roizman
Editor: Gerald B. Greenberg
Cast: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Fernando Rey
Year: 1971

I heard once that Gene Hackman was so nuts back in the '70s (and maybe he still is), that at the end of each day of shooting The French connection, he would immediately walk off the set and go wandering drunk about the steets of New York, picking random fistfights with people in bars. He apparantly told people who asked him "I have to go let off some steam".

4.5 out of 5