Episode 6 – William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971)

This month we are picking our feet in Poughkeepsie as we tip our hats to William Friedkin’s 1971 cops and robbers thriller The French Connection.

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This month we are picking our feet in Poughkeepsie as we tip our hats to William Friedkin’s 1971 cops and robbers thriller The French Connection.

 

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Author Thomas D. Clagett, “William Friedkin: Films of Aberration, Obsession and Reality”

This month we are picking our feet in Poughkeepsie as we tip our hats to William Friedkin’s 1971 cops and robbers thriller The French Connection.

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MOVIES
The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin, USA
The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin, USA
Cruising (1980) dir. William Friedkin, USA

SONGS
“Black Magic Woman” (1973) w: Peter Green, p: Santana
“Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon” (1971) w: Jimmy Webb, p: The Three Degrees
“Run to Paradise” (1987) w: Mark Gable and Brad Carr, p: The Choirboys