New to Blu-ray and up for grabs in this contest is The French Connection and French Connection II starring Gene Hackman as “Popeye” Doyle on Blu-ray Disc. We have five sets of the two French ...

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation. "The French Connection" is based on Robin Moore's 1969 ...

It’s the heart-stopping moment when a bashed-in Pontiac LeMans hurtles beneath NYC’s elevated subway at 90 miles an hour, dodging traffic and pedestrians in a wild race to keep up with a hijacked N ...

Popeye is a racist, sexist, slovenly drunk cop who spouts off lines like "never trust a nigger" as though they were aphorisms from his grandmother's lips while at the same time making use of black ...

When you think of Best Picture Oscar winners, you think of grand epics or weighty historical topics, not grimy, intimate cops-and-robbers dramas. 2. Friedkin -- then an up-and-coming young director ...

The story goes that 1970s Hollywood was a golden age for creative freedom, a time when maverick filmmakers could make their freewheeling passion projects without interference from studio suits. But ...

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