French Connection II

Still on the trail of drug kingpin Frog One, narcotics officer Popeye Doyle leaves his Manhattan stomping grounds and heads for Marseilles. There, Popeye is captured by Frog One’s minions, who pump him full of drugs in hopes of turning the cop into a hopeless junkie., A sequel, the film is about tracking a heroin czar in Marseilles., Gene Hackman reprises his detective role in this sequel about tracking a heroin czar in Marseilles., Police thriller in which tough New York narcotics detective Popeye Doyle moves to Marseilles in his obsessive pursuit of his old adversary, the drug dealer Charnier. This suspenseful sequel moves away from the straight action of its predecessor to explore Doyle’s complex character more fully., Gene Hackman returns as New York narcotics detective Jimmy ‘Popeye’ Doyle in John Frankenheimer’s sequel to the classic crime thriller, which sees Doyle travelling to Marseilles in an attempt to track down drug dealer Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey)., ‘Popeye’ Doyle travels to France on the trail of elusive drug dealer Alain Charnier, but the New York cop is captured and forcibly hooked on heroin. Thriller., ‘Popeye’ Doyle travels to France on the trail of elusive drug dealer Alain Charnier, but the New York cop is captured and forcibly hooked on heroin., In this sequel to the Oscar-winning The French Connection, narcotics officer Popeye Doyle is still on the trail of drug kingpin Frog One. Leaving his Manhattan stomping grounds, he heads for Marseilles and is captured by Frog One’s minions. Eventually, Doyle catches up with Frog One and metes out justice., Gene Hackman repeats his Oscar-winning detective role in this sequel about tracking a heroin czar in Marseilles. Directed on location by John Frankenheimer. Charnier: Fernando Rey. Barthelemy: Bernard Fresson. Diron: Jean-Pierre Castaldi. Miletto: Charles Millot. Old Lady: Cathleen Nesbitt., John Frankenheimer’s crime thriller sequel moves the action to France; and from a fictionalised account of detective James ‘Popeye’ Doyle’s exploits to an adventure that’s purely fictional. Doyle is sent across the Atlantic to track down heroin trafficker Alain Charnier on his home turf in Marseille. Unable to speak French and feeling hemmed in by his Gallic hosts, Doyle decides to strike out on his own and capture the kingpin by himself. This proves to be a very poor decision, for he is kidnapped by his prey and has a terrible form of revenge inflicted upon him. Down, but not quite out, Doyle steels himself for one last attempt to bring down his nemesis.