On YouTube Movies & TV: "The French Connection"
Starring Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider, the 1971 uber-classic "The
French Connection" is currently free in the U.S. on #YouTube Movies
and TV. This is AFAIK the first time it has been on there -- as of
yesterday there were still relatively few comments, all very recent.
Telling the more or less true story of a pair of New York City
detectives on the trail of an enormous heroin shipment (from France,
thus the name), it is groundbreaking in many ways. Largely shot on
location in NYC, it shows an amazing snapshot of the city in the early
70s. The infamous chase scene where Hackman is trying to keep up with
an elevated train in a car, was, apparently, not approved by the city,
so the story is that they just shot it anyway. The car collision that
occurs during the sequence apparently involved an innocent party.
Though this video presents no indication that it has been edited from
the original theatrical release, it is missing the entire short scene
where one detective tells the other to "never trust a [N-word]."
Various prints of this film either include or don't include this
sequence -- a matter of some controversy among film historians and
others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMp8703O6R0
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