French Connection II (1975)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

John Frankenheimer

Writers:

Alexander Jacobs (screenplay) and
Robert Dillon (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

21 May 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

THE FRENCH CONNECTION was only the beginning-THIS is the climax

Plot:

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marsailles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.

Plot Keywords:

Hershey Bar | Hotel | Sequel To Best Picture Winner | Reanimation | Captivity

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations

Cast

Gene Hackman	...	Doyle
Fernando Rey	...	Alain Charnier
Bernard Fresson	...	Barthélémy
Philippe Léotard	...	Jacques (as Philippe Leotard)
Ed Lauter	...	General Brian
Charles Millot	...	Miletto
Jean-Pierre Castaldi	...	Raoul
Cathleen Nesbitt	...	The Old Lady
Samantha Llorens	...	Denise
André Penvern	...	Bartender
Reine Prat	...	Young Girl on the Beach
Raoul Delfosse	...	Dutch Captain
Ham-Chau Luong	...	Japanese Captain (as Ham Chau Luong)
Jacques Dynam	...	Inspector Genevoix
Malek Kateb	...	Algerian Chief (as Malek Eddine)

Also Known As:

Contacto en Francia II (Argentina) (Venezuela) [es]
Anthropos apo tin Gallia 2, O (Greece) [el]
Braccio violento della legge n.2, Il (Italy) [it]
Francia kapcsolat 2. (Hungary) [hu]
Francuska veza 2 (Serbia) [sr]
Francuski lacznik II (Poland) [pl]
French Connection II (West Germany) [de]
French Connection II (Hungary) [hu]
French Connection Nr 2 (Sweden) [sv]
Kovaotteiset miehet 2 (Finland) [fi]
Operação França II (Brazil) [pt]

Runtime:

119 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

UK:X (original rating) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | UK:18 (video rating) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Iceland:16 | Brazil:16 | Canada:18A (video rating) | Argentina:18 | Australia:M | Finland:K-18 | Singapore:NC-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Alain Charnier's villa is the same building used in the original film, The French Connection (1971).

Goofs:

Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, when Doyle arrives with his suitcases at the dock, a girl in a flowered dress and a boy in a yellow shirt run past him towards his right-hand side. In the next shot, when we see Doyle from the front, the same girl and boy are climbing up on a fence on his left-hand side.

Quotes:

Jimmy Doyle: Jack Daniel's.
French Barkeeper: Jacques qui?
Jimmy Doyle: Jackie, yeah, Jackie Daniel's.
French Barkeeper: ?
Jimmy Doyle: Scotch, right there, El Scotcho.
French Barkeeper: Whisky?
Jimmy Doyle: Here we go.
French Barkeeper: Avec glace? (With ice?)
Jimmy Doyle: Yeah, in a glass.

Movie Connections:

References Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)

Good sequel with excellent acting Gene Hackman and splendid support cast

The movie concerns on Popeye Doyle(Gene Hackman) who trips to Marsaille following the French connection and tries track down to the evil Alain Charnier(Fernado Rey),the smuggling ring chief,who escaped of N.Y.C.There, he unites with the French gendarmes(Bernard Fresson and Jean Pierre Castaldi).

The picture is following up of ¨French Connection¨(Willian Friedkin) but didn't obtain the same success and was a box office's flop.However is considered a good film and is highly rated.In the movie there are action,suspense,violence,intrigue and a little bit humor at charge of Popeye Doyle in his relations with the Frenchmen. The film narrates a certain social critical to the French customs and there's specially a banter of French Police called gendarmerie. The motion picture has action packed but the intervening period when the starring is abducted, is bored ,with overlong scenes besides quite disagreeable thus as he's injected with heroin. Interpretation Gene Hackman as the rebel and nonconformist Popeye Doyle is top notch as well as the previous film for that attained an Academy Award.Fernando Rey repeats perfectly his role as the elegant and cunning nasty and the secondary casting constituted by French actors are very fine. Rating: Very Good and well worth watching.