I wonder if some part of me was living the movies I grew up with. I’ve done surveillances and spent a few nights freezing my ass off, waiting for something to happen that rarely does. Later, after a day of walking surveillance in Manhattan, he’ll stand on First Avenue in the cold and watch Frog One and an associate eat at Copain while Doyle and Russo down pizza and bad coffee. This was surveillance before the coordination-and distractions-offered by cell phones. Doyle became the Hollywood archetype of the obsessive, loner cop who’ll stop at nothing because he has no other considerations or obligations. Later we learn he’s unmarried, lives alone and is apparently childless. “Never trust a ni***r,” Doyle says, with a hard ‘r’.ĭoyle is willing to give up an entire night following Boca on nothing more than a hunch. This was after Russo had been slashed earlier that day and Doyle had to be restrained by Russo from beating the perp to death.
He’s a shark who never stops swimming, because if he did he would die.ĭoyle and Russo go out for a few drinks and end up tailing Sal Boca. He’s actually always working, always looking. He’s a cop, all the time, and not in that bullshit, public relations way.
How Doyle and Russo come onto the scene is the first time you learn that Doyle is a singular beast. It’s based on a real seizure that happened in New York City in 1961. Doyle and Russo stumble onto the case and stop the deal. A French organization smuggles 60 kilos of heroin into New York City in an imported Lincoln Continental for sale to a Mafia crew for $500,000 ($3.2 million in 2018 dollars). If you don’t know the movie, here’s the plot. That’s the ending of the 1971 classic, The French Connection, and it cemented NYPD Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle, played by Gene Hackman, as one of popular culture’s most memorable-and complicated-cops. The screen goes black and a gunshot rings out. I’m gonna get him.”ĭoyle disappears alone into another room.
He says, “The sonovabitch is here, I saw him. “You shot Mulderig,” his partner, Buddy Russo says in quiet shock. David Schine Executive Producer Irving Buchman Makeup Jerry Greenberg Editor Joseph Fretwell Costume Designer Kenneth Utt Associate Producer Owen Roizman Cinematographer Phil D'Antoni First Assistant Director, Producer Phil D'Antoni First Assistant Director, Producer Robin Moore Book Author Sass Bedig Special Effects Sonny Grosso Klein, Special Effects Sue Dwiggins Production Secretary Terry Donnelly First Assistant Director Theodore Soderberg Sound/Sound Designer William C.Seconds later Detective Popeye Doyle pumps five rounds into a Federal agent, mistaking him for the man he was hunting. Cast Gene Hackman Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle Fernando Rey Alain Charnier Roy Scheider Buddy Russo Tony Lo Bianco Sal Boca Marcel Bozzuffi Pierre Nicoli Frederic de Pasquale Devereaux Irving Abrahams Police Mechanic Andre Emotte La Valle Arlene Faber Angie Boca Ben Marino Lou Boca Patrick McDermott Chemist The Three Degrees Themselves Eddie Egan Walter Simonson Al Fann Informant Randy Jurgensen Police Sergeant William Coke Motorman Maureen Mooney Bicycle Girl Robert Weil Auctioneer Bill Hickman Mulderig, Stunts Ann Rebbot Marie Charnier Harold Gary Weinstock Sonny Grosso Klein, Special Effects Alan Weeks Drug Pusher Crew William Friedkin Director Ben Kasazkow Art Director Bill Hickman Mulderig, Stunts Chris Newman Sound/Sound Designer Don Ellis Composer (Music Score), Conductor, Musical Direction/Supervision Don Ellis Composer (Music Score), Conductor, Musical Direction/Supervision Don Ellis Composer (Music Score), Conductor, Musical Direction/Supervision Ed Garzero Set Designer Ernest Tidyman Screenwriter G.
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