But most of the control was achieved by the assistant directors with the help of off-duty NYPD officers, many of whom had been involved in the actual case. The scene doesn’t feel like an afterthought, though, it’s the perfect synthesis of car … Thirty-five years after it was made, the climatic car chase scene in The French Connection is still jaw-dropping in its suspense and execution. Fall 2006. William Friedkin’s “The French Connection” was shown as part of American Cinematheque’s tribute to him, and he went into great detail about how the famous car chase came together. That's only because he had to try to top what he did in this movie. Get French Connected: 1971 Pontiac LeMans Marty Wilke Almost always near the top of many top-ten lists of all-time greatest movie car chase scenes is The French Connection , released in 1971. Philip D’Antoni produced both “Bullitt” and “The French Connection”. As with Bullitt, The French Connection (also produced by Bullitt's producer, Philip D'Antoni) is famed for its car I parked my car and started walking towards a nondescript building among a number of similar buildings. Some may have been worth listing but because of the sheer number of one-star vehicles on the page I decided to leave them here. The French Connection - Sean Donnelly, Olivia Hoden, Chris Nabors, and Gaby Perez This gripping, suspenseful and engaging film tells the story of a thirty-two million dollar drug smuggle from Paris to New York City. “I got the idea right off the streets,” he said. Made in 1971 and starring a young Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider, it is based on an actual drug trafficking scheme known by the same name. As Friedkin was preparing to film The French Connection, he was walking the streets of New York for ideas, and the subway rumbled below him. 1971's The French Connection features one of the most harrowing car chases in cinema history: Detective Jimmy Doyle (Gene Hackman) hurtling … The old black car is a 1954 Chrysler New Yorker De Luxe, noteworthy for its age: CougarTim 2012-08-25 21:30. achiu31 wrote Background vehicles. Every scene was filmed in one take without closing the streets. Director William Friedkin recounts how he created one of the greatest action sequences ever. A True Story The French Connection gets the gong as the movie with the 3rd best car chase of all time. People will always hark on about that car chase and, yes, it is good, but there is more to this film … Anatomy of a Chase. The car chase filmed (over five weeks) beneath the Bensonhurst Elevated Railway – 26 blocks (count ’em) of Brooklyn’s Stillwell Line from Bay 50th Street Station along Stillwell Avenue, into 86th Street. they featured the chase sequence in a movie making documentary and said they filmed it with undercranking (ie speed up the film) to make it look more frantic. He requisitions a passing car and begins the movie’s famous chase sequence at Bay 50th Street Station. Now the chicks ass in the white pants that Kwon posted above is Oscar worthy !! A few days after seeing The French Connection in a theater, I was asked to pick up my mother at my aunt’s apartment in Coney Island.