THE FRENCH CONNECTION Clip - "Car Weight" (1971) Gene Hackman
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- THE FRENCH CONNECTION Clip - "Car Weight" (1971) Gene Hackman
PLOT: New York Detective "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and his partner (Roy Scheider) chase a French heroin smuggler.
Release date: October 9, 1971 (USA)
Director: William Friedkin
CAST: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
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“C’mon Irv, what the hell is that?!?!” I use that line and only nobody outside of this comment section gets it…
I came here to put that comment
Listen...I ripped everything outta there .....except the rocker panels.
@@3dsmaxrocks699 Well why TF didn't you rip them out?
Roy Scheider is just the actor you need to portray a character that has just hit upon something that everyone else missed
The movie had a "gritty" element that gave it something alot of movies lacked. Great actors, story appropriate for its time and great scenes.
The French Connection is a masterpiece. One of the greatest films ever made, and one of my all-time favorites. Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey gave tour de force performances. Hackman and William Friedkin's deserved the oscars they won for this movie, bar none.
William Friedkin, the director, compared it to Moby Dick. Specifically, how Popeye Doyle hunting Frog One throughout the City mirrors how Captain Ahab hunts the Whale throughout the ocean. I think it's a great comparison and brings to mind the 1956 John Huston-directed masterpiece adaptation of Moby Dick, starring Gregory Peck. If there was ever a perfect double feature, The French Connection and Moby Dick would be it.
Excellent point. And if you'll note, Popeye in his black coat and porkpie hat often resembles Captain Ahab.
I love this movie and I loved Moby-Dick. I never noticed the obvious similarities until reading this comment. Thank you!
Do I have to say the obvious? THE Moby Dick adaptation, Wrath of Khan. Hell of a triple bill.
"We got it! It was in the glove compartment!"
Police Squad, well done
The other wonderful part of it is that they start off with a massive Lincoln Continental, but by the time they're done -- due to having "a few parts left over" -- it's turned into a tiny Chevrolet Corvair.
What an awesome film. The car vs L train scene is well worth the price of admission.
Freidkin follows this up with The Exorcist. Talk about a one-two punch combo!!!
1977 Sorcerer Number 3 and maybe his best movie.
He was still doing kick ass movies in the 80s too albeit with less comercial success, To Live and To Die in LA is great and proof we were being spoiled with the quality of movies they were making back then, that's one of like 10 movies I can remember that are simply outstanding yet they were box office flops.
@@g.sergiusfidenas6650 To Live and To Die in LA is good it his 3rd or 4th best movie.
I deliver Ubereats around that house every night. 😱
Man this is a great movie. So many amazing actors.
Plus Popeye and Cloudy's real-life counterparts are in the film and not cameos!
I remember in the Mad magazine satire of the French Connection where they dismantle the Continental only to reasemble it as a Cadillac El Dorado
Yes, that sounds like something _Mad Magazine_ would do. Actually a lot of the _Mad_ parodies of movies and t.v. series were hilarious. _Mad_ had some clever lunatics as writers.
I looked everywhere but the glove compartment!
@@jimsannerud6254 LOL!
One piece at a time 😅
@Redzen.No.0488 It was called "What's the connection?" The two detectives interrogated a suspect. The Gene Hackman character said, "Do you pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" The suspect mentions "I pick my schnozolla in Harlem."
Impressive ability to put it all back together again!
Yes I all ways thought that,there must have been evidence that it was taken apart like oily fingerprints or screwdriver scratches,surely Deveareux or Frog one would have noticed.Brilliant film though.
Irv, is the real deal, he was actually the NYC police garage mechanic. Freidkin put him in the film.
he should've checked the rocker panels first
Irv was slipping
You listen to "Now Playing" too? Just learned that listening today.
That explains why he is so good at being bad at his job.
Since when does "rip everything out" mean "just do what you feel like, I guess..."?
The original detectives were in the movie (not playing themselves, of course).
Still one of the best crime & car chase movie ever & IMO Gene Hackmans best movie
Don't forget Steve McQueen's "Bullitt" car chase scene as well.
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Seems to me the rocker panels would be one of the first things you'd check.
Glove box first.
Yes. The more obvious places first.
They are now !
Exactly
yeah, and the factory weight
the editing in this scene is top notch!
Only Friedkin could make a car-stripping scene so utterly compelling.
What a movie 😢
This scene inspired me get a job as a motor mechanic with our local Police force !
Hopefully it inspired you to search in the most obvious and easily accessed part of the car first before tearing the whole car apart.
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I worked on police cars for close to 15 years. We never got involved in drug searches. But if the car was involved in a fatal accident, it was in the shop covered in plastic, and the police would do their thing. Only once was I asked to help remove hairs from the rear package shelf because people were ejected from the car in a fatal accident, and they wanted to know who went thru where.
"I took everything outta that kah...except the rockah panels!"
Love that line and love the scene.
I should dress up as irv for Halloween and burst into a party and yell, "listen, i ripped everything outta deaa, except da rocka panels!"
A little background story. The producers were not able to secure a 1960 Buick Invicta, the real car the dope smugglers used. That car had a hidden open undercarriage where they could stash 120 pounds of heroin. The Lincoln Continental had no such secret open compartment. The little cubby hole in the rocker panel could only hold two kilos of heroin. That's all the film crew could stuff in there.
Friedkin said it would have been prohibitively expensive to shoot the film in period. Irv Abrahams was the actual police mechanic who pulled the Invicta apart in the real case.
Actual heroin?
@@leafbranch1872 According to Friedkin's commentary on the DVD, that is actual heroin.
@@8avexpNo real heroin in the rocker panel scene. Egan and Grosso secured a couple of grams for the heroin testing scenes.
@@mandolindleyroadshow706 OK, that makes sense.
I remember the first time I watched this, and I am still impressed by the tension in the scene as to whether or not there really is heroin in it.
"I ripped everything out of there except the rocker panels." That's almost the same as saying, "I checked the whole car except the trunk!"
There's no way it's in that car! I checked everywhere except for one place!
So like how the cop waits until after they have lit up before saying nope. Small but good.
Also recommend watching the surgery scene in Bulllit
This scene reminds me of Hooper and Brody gutting the tiger shark in hopes finding Alex Kintner's remains. Maybe it's just the presence of Roy Scheider, but it has a similar look, feel, and tone.
I looked everywhere except his poop chute.
Usually shipping weights don’t include any gas. A ‘65 Buick Riviera had a 17 gallon tank. If it was full that would be 102 pounds right there.
It was weighed after the tank was off.
The rocker panels would be the first place to look.
You could smoke anywhere it was totally acceptable and nobody went outside to smoke.
Gasoline and oil
Eh gasoline isn't that flammable unless it's under pressure.
The factory weight of that 1971 car is heavier than my 2021 pick-up truck. 😆
The Seven-ups s good too!? Great car chase..
😂there's no way they put that car back to how it was before they stripped it pulled it apart .
The show Police Squad did a pretty good parody of this scene. It's on CZcams.
Simple. They just got another car of the same model and put the dope in that one.
For sake of story, we have to assume that somehow they did before the day was over. Not in it's original state, but how it might be after having been "stolen" and later "recovered". Cars almost always shows some signs of abuse afterwards. A substitute car would have needed the same modification made to the rocker panels as the original; they don't come from the factory with a removeable sheet metal panel under the door sill. The real cops didn't find the hidden spaces in the real car until after the shipment had already been removed.
Correct, not in that short a time frame. I figure they secured a car exactly like it in the time the two frenchmen were waiting.
The best scene ever.
This is me trying to find the illegal police tracker on my car.
quick fact: Popeye's Chicken was inspired by this film.
Good old C6 transmission.
LOL yup. The only one that could take an upgrade from a 302 to a 460.
love this movie 👌
The actors used in this film were actual actors. Not the AI stuff we’ve been seeing since the 1980s.
2:35 totally not a product placement for Coke. 😂
The officer in the office with the French gentlemen looks like John Cougar Mellencamp's dad.
yes, as some have noted Irv was a real police mechanic - I recall they also used him in a cola commercial in the garage setting after the movie came out
Where it all began
They obviously used real mechanics, at least for the close up hand scene's. Bare hands doing that stuff, haha! Seen that so many times! and you can tell by how rough the hands are alone.
Cartel has joined the chat. (Laughing)
Excellent !
Never made sense to me how they could put that car back together that quickly and no one noticed?
A gem of a scene from the days when NYC was proper run.
@1:30? What? Back then you could literally just smoke anywhere. Movie theaters. Malls. Airports. Airplanes. You could even smoke in hospitals!
Don’t forget elevators…
they must be woke! let's get 'em!
Told to put out their cigs by a uniformed officer with sideburns. What a terrific time.
I looked everywhere -except the trunk.
In the days before drug sniffing dogs were introduced.
Yeah, but the dogs react on every vehicle these days, so....
dogs that can smell though big blocks of metal?
Rocker panels (US) = Door sills (UK). What's rockin'?
When i watch this scene i think the mechanic should have thought of the rockah panels before being prompted.
The first place to look: The rocker panels.
Call me crazy, but 2:49 onwards resembles the soundtrack.
The soundtrack when popeye follow to the french in the city
Yes exactly!@@ELHIPPO
I noticed that too. That thump thump... thump thump was used throughout the film, in the buildup scenes. Either they used that drill sound directly on the soundtrack, or an instrument that sounds just like it.
This was based a on a true story but they took some artistic liberties.
They always do
They didn't have hounds to sniff it out?
2:10 - :30 We can always feel free to compare this.
how did they get that car back together so quickly
did they replace the car? or put it back together?
They had to have replaced it. I mean they stripped the uphosltery, took apart the oil pan and bunch of other stuff on the underside. So there was no way they could have put it back together in any reasonable amount of time and without the criminals noticing anything wrong.
In the next scene, Cloudy sad, "I don't have a single scratch," is interesting.
So they didn't IMMEDIATELY compare actual weight with manufacturers weight? And Irv knows they are specifically looking for hidden drugs but DOESN'T look in a place he KNOWS that is relatively easy to look in? Irv ain't that bright.
Movie audiences in the 1970s were just... simpler. You could have big plot logic gaps, and as long as you had a great actor like Hackman in it, it was not a problem.
They're looking for heroin in spaces that could hold very little, or where it would be ruined by heat. Dropping the automatic transmission pan was kind of ridiculous.
Yup. The whole scene is a bit silly. You think they would have gotten a drug dog to maybe pinpoint.
@@nicholasmuro1742 Drug sniffing dogs were not in use by the police back in the 1960s (The time period of this story). Nor were they in use in the early 1970s when this movie was made. The first instance of drug sniffing dogs being trained and made available to police agencies within the USA occurred in 1987
@@nicholasmuro1742 I don't think they had drug sniffing dogs (K9) back then, though a quick Google search may suggest otherwise.
@@nicholasmuro1742pretty sure they wouldn't be able to smell out something buried inside car parts.
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I don't know why, but suddenly I want a Coke.
And a shot of rum ……..
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That the mechanic who took that car apart didn’t remove the rocker panels almost immediately speaks to their abject incompetence.
4,795 lbs with 120 lbs of H. That is a heavy car. The 1971 Continental is a whale.
That's heavy and I thought about how far we've come, but I was surprised to learn the average car today is 4000. Larger SUV's and trucks are around 5000 and top 6000!
Unfortunately, the average car is an SUV. And most of the trucks and SUV's are junk. @GarretGrayCamera
I've read the book of the real thing ! An investigation that lasted over a year. More or less just following a suspect around and seeing who they meet, then following these people and who they meet and so on. It would make a very boring movie ! Thousand of hours long with no action !
Notice how the pigs don't use a drug sniffing dog?
Drug sniffing dogs were not in use by the police back in the 1960s (The time period of this story). Nor were they in use in the early 1970s when this movie was made. The first instance of drug sniffing dogs being trained and made available to police agencies within the USA occurred in 1987
@@hobbes305 😁
Or cell phones
Only losers call cops pigs. 😂
they will make a remake of the french connection and screw it with woke crap and characters NO ONE WANTS.