French Connection II

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

He’s strong til the finish, cause he eats his spinach (and stopped shooting heroin), he’s Popeye the Jailer Man!

Gene Hackman crosses the pond to catch The Frog that avoided capture during a big time U.S. drug bust in the 1975 sequel French Connection II. But will it be any easier to find Fernando Rey on his home turf when the New York cop doesn’t speak the language and Marseilles police don’t condone his brutal investigative methods? And can fill-in director John Frankenheimer (Manchurian Candidate) replicate the adrenalized rush of the original car chases when so many characters are strung out on smack? You’ll know the score when you Listen Now!

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0:00.0	I've been a New York cop for 14 years. I know that a note that comes out of this city is
0:07.3	killed a lot more than I have.
0:10.5	Welcome to now playing's The French Connection Retrospective Series.
0:15.0	All right, clap-eyes here.
0:17.0	Get your hands on your heads, get off the barn, get on the wall.
0:20.0	Come on, move.
0:21.0	Move.
0:22.0	Move. Move. Move. Hosted by Arnie.
0:24.0	I think he's dirty, but I don't know why.
0:28.0	Stuart.
0:29.0	Are you everything they say you are?
0:32.0	And Jacob.
0:33.0	Hey Bravo, the Americans have landed.
0:36.0	But be warned, this episode will contain detailed plot spoilers and strong language.
0:41.0	Not my city, you don't.
0:43.8	We hope you enjoy the show.
0:46.5	Enjoy what at last my friend.
0:49.8	Today we're discussing The French Connection 2 starring Gene Hackman, Fernando Ray, Bernard Frisson,
0:58.0	directed by John Frankenheimer. This is the now playing co-host who'd rather be a podcaster in Texas than the King of France
1:05.2	Arnie and Stuart I don't know I'd rather be the president of France than anything in America probably but this is Jacob
1:11.5	Mm-hmm if you're the president of France, you can get the French Connection drug dealer off and keep him protected for the rest of his life,
1:19.0	which is the true story, and which is the reason why I thought we wouldn't get a sequel to the French
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