Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: French Connection II

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From this Saturday at 2am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 7am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movie French Connection II from 1975.
French Connection II is a 1975 American action thriller film starring Gene Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer.
It is a fictional sequel to the initially true story of the 1971 Academy Award winning picture The French Connection.
The film expands on the central character of Det. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle who travels to Marseille, France where he is attempting to track down French drug-dealer Alain Charnier, who escaped at the end of the first film.
Hackman won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the original The French Connection and he and Fernando Rey are the only returning cast members.
Directed by: John Frankenheimer.
Produced by: Robert L. Rosen.
Screenplay by: Alexander Jacobs, Robert Dillon and Laurie Dillon.
Story by: Robert Dillon and Laurie Dillon.
Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey and Bernard Fresson.
Music by: Don Ellis.
Cinematography: Claude Renoir.
Edited by: Tom Rolf.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox.
Release date : 21 May, 1975.
Running time: 119 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English and French.
Budget: $4.3 million.
Box office: $12.5 million.
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