William Friedkin's 1971 action thriller features a famous chase scene that has gone down as one of the best in cinema, but filming the scene was quite risky. Friedkin's The French Connection opened to ...

In a scene out of “The French Connection,” a wild new NYPD video shows cops hot on the tail of two alleged car thieves in a stolen muscle car racing through streets — and on sidewalks — in the Bronx.

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