The French Connection
Two New York narcotics detectives working street corners in winter follow a hunch from a nightclub to a Brooklyn candy store and up to a French shipping executive with a Lincoln full of heroin. The pursuit runs through stakeouts in freezing doorways and a car chase beneath an elevated train. Friedkin shot on real streets with documentary methods, and it became the first R-rated release to win Best Picture.
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