The French Connection HelloIn 1971, William Friedkin made the defining film of his career with a neo-noir thriller about a pair of New York cops on the hunt for wealthy heroin traffickers. It paved the way for Dirty Harry and The Exorcist two years later, but there’s something uniquely shrewd about Friedkin’s mix of realism and dynamism: he could stage a white-knuckle caper for a mainstream...
