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Episode 8 – No Babies Were Harmed in the Making of The French Connection

Today we are talking about The French Connection which was released in 1971 (A great year!!), directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman and Roy Schneider. It is a film about a pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection. We discuss the laws that were broken and stretched during the making of this film. We discuss the racial implications and police brutality that occurred at the time of filming compared to our current climate. 

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