French Connection II

You don’t make a sequel to someone else’s Best Picture winner in the 70s if your career is on a high-note, especially when you’ve already made your epic a decade earlier. The idea of continuing the adventures of Popeye Doyle after how his investigation ended in such a non-resolution with the first film, The French Connection, makes perfect sense in terms of potential sequels. But Friedkin‘s documentarian energy was absent, John Frankenheimer seemed lost as to what actually interested him in ...