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The stunts are done with terrifying conviction. And Gene Hackman, savage exasperated gestures and the mad ill-assembled features of a puppet carved from packing-case wood, gives a performance of devoted, inexorable vindictiveness.

It's not what I want not because it fails but because of what it is. It is, I think, what we once feared mass entertainment might become: jolts for jocks.

If you want a dog-eared guide book, stuffed with authentic detail, to the work of the New York narcotics squad, this is your film. It certainly is mine. Every element coalesces into a hard bunch of excitement you can't imagine belter done.

Written by Ernest Tidyman and directed by William Friedkin, It has exactly the kind of ruthless professionalism and headlong pace one ands in the American cinema at its best.

The French Connection helps bring about a new era in filmmaking--much thanks to Friedkin and company--and cinema would never be the same.