# French Connection II (1975)

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**Runtime**: 119 min
**Genres**: Action, Crime, Thriller
**Directed by**: John Frankenheimer
**Written by**: Robert Dillon, Laurie Dillon, Alexander Jacobs
**Starring**: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard, Ed Lauter, Charles Millot

> *The French Connection was only the beginning. THIS IS THE CLIMAX.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Marseille docks at midnight. A wet coat flapping against a lamppost. Popeye Doyle scans the waterfront.

One man’s missing. Another’s staking out every ferry.

Soon the chase narrows to the back alleys where the Mediterranean air smells like gasoline and lies.

**Mood tags**: paranoid, raw

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