What is French Connection / The Brink's Job about?

Name: French Connection / The Brink's Job
Genre: Comedy

FRENCH CONNECTION, 1971, 20th Century Fox, 104 min. Dir. William Friedkin. Gene Hackman stars as Detective Popeye Doyle, muscling minor hoods in NYC -- when he catches the trail of a huge shipment of French heroin. With partner Roy Scheider, Hackman dogs Marseilles-based drug-kingpin Fernando Rey through New York City’s concrete jungle -- highlighted by a brainjangling car chase that still hasn’t been topped. THE BRINKS JOB, 1978, Universal, 104 min. Director William Friedkin followed up THE EXORCIST and SORCERER with this hilarious, yet suspenseful caper film. Shot on location and based on the real-life, $2 million robbery of the Brink’s vault in Boston in 1950, Peter Falk plays Tony Pino the mastermind behind it all. Pino assembles a motley crew of third rate thieves, thugs and misfits to attempt the perfect crime. Based on the book The Big Stick-Up At Brink's by Noel Behn.

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What is French Connection / The Brink's Job about?: FRENCH CONNECTION, 1971, 20th Century Fox, 104 min. Dir. William Friedkin. Gene Hackman stars as Detective Popeye Doyle, muscling minor hoods in NYC -- when he catches the trail of a huge shipment of French heroin. With partner Roy Scheider, Hackman dogs Marseilles-based drug-kingpin Fernando Rey through New York City’s concrete jungle -- highlighted by a brainjangling car chase that still hasn’t been topped.

THE BRINKS JOB, 1978, Universal, 104 min. Director William Friedkin followed up THE EXORCIST and SORCERER with this hilarious, yet suspenseful caper film. Shot on location and based on the real-life, $2 million robbery of the Brink’s vault in Boston in 1950, Peter Falk plays Tony Pino the mastermind behind it all. Pino assembles a motley crew of third rate thieves, thugs and misfits to attempt the perfect crime. Based on the book The Big Stick-Up At Brink's by Noel Behn.