Title: PRE FRENCH CONNECTION
Product review: A couple minutes of nyc street scenes look like THE FRENCH CONNECTION, but this movie is very much about a STRAY DOG stolen gun, and not about heroin. This movie is also too polite and liberal, when FRENCH CONNECTION was known for its racist language. And THE FRENCH CONNECTION also had ethnic nyc actors, here swedish meatball Inger Stevens is in the cast.The movie was written by blacklisted very-communist Abraham Polansky, who wrote the John Garfiled movie BODY AND SOUL waay waay back, and it shows with his out-dated dialogue. Polanksy, to his death, hated Elia Kazan for ratting out Stalin fans in the 1950s.Andrew Sarris, of THE VILLAGE VOICE, put this in his top ten list of the year it came out---probably only because of Polanksy being blacklisted, since Sarris never put THE FRENCH CONNECTION, THE GODFATHER, or DIRTY HARRY in the top ten for the year they came out.
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