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* ConspicuousConsumption: What tips off Doyle and Russo about Sal and his wife Angie being involved in drug running. Despite running a diner/lounge and making about $7,000 net a year, he owns two cars, a brand new Ford LTD and a 1961 Comet [[hottip:*: The Comet was planned to be part of the Edsel lineup, but became an independant model after Edsel was axed, and finally was absorbed by Mercury in 1962]] (though the Ford is in Angie's name and the Comet is owned by his brother, a garbage yard worker), and wears very expensive suits.
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* ConspicuousConsumption: ConspicuousConsumption / SuspiciousSpending: What tips off Doyle and Russo about Sal and his wife Angie being involved in drug running. Despite running a diner/lounge and making about $7,000 net a year, he owns two cars, a brand new Ford LTD and a 1961 Comet [[hottip:*: The Comet was planned to be part of the Edsel lineup, but became an independant model after Edsel was axed, and finally was absorbed by Mercury in 1962]] (though the Ford is in Angie's name and the Comet is owned by his brother, a garbage yard worker), and wears very expensive suits.
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* BottomlessMagazines: Popeye fires more than sax rounds at the end [[spoiler: when he accidentally shoots a federal officer.]]
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** The MadeForTVMovie ''PopeyeDoyle'', meant to launch a TV series starring Ed O'Neill, picks up right where it leaves off.
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* PunnyName: Cloudy Russo, based on Sonny Grosso.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: 1973's ''The Seven-Ups'', ''Film/TheSevenUps'', starring Roy Scheider as another New York City cop leading a special organized crime task force. It had the same producer and composer of ''TheFrenchConnection'' and also had a high speed car chase. The main character was also based on Eddie "Popeye" Egan.
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** The police mechanic Popeye and Cloudy help to tear apart the Lincoln was an actual NYPD fleet mechanic.
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** The bar patrons during in the fake bust to cover talking to his informant (where he finds out about the shipment) were played by real NYPD officers.
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** Because of New York transit rules forbidding unauthorised personnel from operating trains, the motorman and transit police officers were actual transit employees.
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* RealPersonCameo: Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso (the real-life inspirations for Popeye Doyle and Cloudy Russo) appear in the film as Simonson and Klein, respectively.
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* InstantSeduction: Popeye picks up a woman riding a bicycle. While we don't see the actual seduction, he slowly follows her on his way home, [[GilliganCut then cuts to]] Sonny walking into Popeye's apartment to find a bicycle behind the door and woman's clothes on the floor, and Popeye [[ChainedToABed handcuffed to his bed, by his ankle, with his own cuffs]].
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* InstantSeduction: Popeye picks up a woman riding a bicycle. While we don't see the actual seduction, he slowly follows her on his way home, [[GilliganCut then cuts to]] Sonny Cloudy walking into Popeye's apartment to find a bicycle behind the door and woman's clothes on the floor, and Popeye [[ChainedToABed handcuffed to his bed, by his ankle, with his own cuffs]].
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* PilotMovie: ''Popeye Doyle'', starring Ed O'Neill as Popeye. It was not picked up.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogueWhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The end credits state the all but one of the drug dealers had their charges dropped (the one who was convicted only faced four years), and Doyle and Russo were transferred out of the narcotics division (in RealLife Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso were assigned to another case before being transferred).
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: PeterBoyle was offered the role of Popeye, but declined after having starred in ''Film/{{Joe}}'', a film about a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero bigoted factory worker]], worker]] who eventually murders a bunch of hippies, which had audiences [[MisaimedFandom cheering at him]] instead of being revolted, much to Boyle's disgust.
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* BadassSanta: Popeye's first scene has him catching a perp while dressed as a bell ringing charity Santa.
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->''All right, Popeye's here! Get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!''
-->-- '''Popeye Doyle'''
The tale of NYC cop "Popeye" Doyle and his partner, "Cloudy" Russo. One day, they stumble upon a huge shipment of heroin from France. The trail leads to notorious drug kingpin, Alain Charnier. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Car chases ensue.]] A huge success and a classic piece of seventies Hollywod cinema. The film made a star of GeneHackman and also starred [[Film/{{Jaws}} Roy Scheider]]. Based on the true story of the two cops who would stop the drug trafficking between France and the US, it was a huge success, both financially and critically. The film won many AcademyAwards, for Best Actor (Hackman), Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture. Thus it would come close to winning the five big, but lacked a female main character. It also won for editing and the car-chase alone is worth it.
!!The film has examples of:
* AbandonedWarehouse: The final scene takes place in one.
** Technically its an abandoned mental hospital.
* BabyCarriage: A runaway carriage hampers the car chase.
* BasedOnATrueStory: The film actually used the real duo behind it as the consultants for the film.
* BeardOfEvil: Alain Charnier, AKA "Frog One".
* TheBigRottenApple: See "CrapsackWorld" entry below.
* CarChase: One of the most famous in movie history. While ''{{Bullitt}}'' was the TropeMaker, this was the TropeCodifier.
** The sequel, meanwhile, climaxes with a chase ''on foot'' that's pretty epic in its own right.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" Also becomes ArcWords.
* ChainedToABed
* CowboyCop: Doyle.
* CrapsackWorld: Just like ''MidnightCowboy'' and ''TaxiDriver'', this is set in the era of "[[GeraldFord Ford]] to City: Drop Dead".
* [[spoiler: DownerEnding]]
* FlashedBadgeHijack
* FruitCart: Popeye crashes through some garbage cans during the car chase.
* TheInformant
* IronicEcho: Non-verbal example. Charnier waves goodbye to Doyle after eluding him on the subway; later, Charnier runs into a police roadblock after making the drop on Ward's Island and Doyle, catching his eye, waves to him in the same manner.
* KarmaHoudini: The bad guys all had their charges dropped. The only one who got jail time was there for only 4 years.
* MadLibThrillerTitle
* NewYorkCityCops
* NewYorkSubway
* NiceHat: Popeye's porkpie hat.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Doyle is forced to drop the investigation by his superiors. One of the traffickers tries to assassinate him. Doyle gets the investigation re-opened.
* RealPersonCameo: Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso (the real-life inspirations for Popeye Doyle and Cloudy Russo) appear in the film as Simonson and Klein, respectively.
* RuleOfCool: The real "Popeye" Doyle (or "Popeye" ''Egan'', rather--his name was changed for the film) thought at first that the famous image of Hackman shooting the criminal at the top of the steps was offensive since he would never actually shoot someone InTheBack, but he realized later on how the moment worked on film and forgave it.
* {{Sequel}}: 1975's ''French Connection II'', which has Doyle traveling to Marseilles in pursuit of Charnier, finding himself a FishOutOfWater in the French city, and being forced into heroin addiction by Charnier's henchmen. Unlike the original, the sequel's plot is entirely fictional.
** Then there was ''Popeye Doyle'', a 1986 MadeForTVMovie featuring Ed O'Neill in the title role.
* SkeletonKeyCard: Cloudy breaks into Popeye's apartment with a credit card.
* StopOrIWillShoot: 'Popeye' guns down the EL assassin as he [[InTheBack turns to flee]], despite the fact that a) he's now unarmed, and b) Popeye couldn't have been sure the man was the same guy who'd taken a shot at him earlier, as there was little opportunity to get a clear look at his face.
* SpiritualSuccessor: 1973's ''The Seven-Ups'', starring Roy Scheider as another New York City cop leading a special organized crime task force. It had the same producer and composer of ''TheFrenchConnection'' and also had a high speed car chase.
* StarMakingRole: For Gene Hackman.
* ThrowItIn: Tradition has it that the famous baby carriage moment was an accident during filming. In truth it was staged. However, earlier in the chase scene there's a moment where another car smashes into Hackman's at an intersection, and that ''was'' a genuine accident that was left in. The driver was a random guy on his way to work. The production company paid for the repairs.
* TranslationConvention: Averted, with a lot of (subtitled) French dialogue.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
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->''All right, Popeye's here! Get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!''
-->-- '''Popeye Doyle'''
The tale of NYC cop "Popeye" Doyle and his partner, "Cloudy" Russo. One day, they stumble upon a huge shipment of heroin from France. The trail leads to notorious drug kingpin, Alain Charnier. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Car chases ensue.]] A huge success and a classic piece of seventies Hollywod cinema. The film made a star of GeneHackman and also starred [[Film/{{Jaws}} Roy Scheider]]. Based on the true story of the two cops who would stop the drug trafficking between France and the US, it was a huge success, both financially and critically. The film won many AcademyAwards, for Best Actor (Hackman), Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture. Thus it would come close to winning the five big, but lacked a female main character. It also won for editing and the car-chase alone is worth it.
!!The film has examples of:
* AbandonedWarehouse: The final scene takes place in one.
** Technically its an abandoned mental hospital.
* BabyCarriage: A runaway carriage hampers the car chase.
* BasedOnATrueStory: The film actually used the real duo behind it as the consultants for the film.
* BeardOfEvil: Alain Charnier, AKA "Frog One".
* TheBigRottenApple: See "CrapsackWorld" entry below.
* CarChase: One of the most famous in movie history. While ''{{Bullitt}}'' was the TropeMaker, this was the TropeCodifier.
** The sequel, meanwhile, climaxes with a chase ''on foot'' that's pretty epic in its own right.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" Also becomes ArcWords.
* ChainedToABed
* CowboyCop: Doyle.
* CrapsackWorld: Just like ''MidnightCowboy'' and ''TaxiDriver'', this is set in the era of "[[GeraldFord Ford]] to City: Drop Dead".
* [[spoiler: DownerEnding]]
* FlashedBadgeHijack
* FruitCart: Popeye crashes through some garbage cans during the car chase.
* TheInformant
* IronicEcho: Non-verbal example. Charnier waves goodbye to Doyle after eluding him on the subway; later, Charnier runs into a police roadblock after making the drop on Ward's Island and Doyle, catching his eye, waves to him in the same manner.
* KarmaHoudini: The bad guys all had their charges dropped. The only one who got jail time was there for only 4 years.
* MadLibThrillerTitle
* NewYorkCityCops
* NewYorkSubway
* NiceHat: Popeye's porkpie hat.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Doyle is forced to drop the investigation by his superiors. One of the traffickers tries to assassinate him. Doyle gets the investigation re-opened.
* RealPersonCameo: Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso (the real-life inspirations for Popeye Doyle and Cloudy Russo) appear in the film as Simonson and Klein, respectively.
* RuleOfCool: The real "Popeye" Doyle (or "Popeye" ''Egan'', rather--his name was changed for the film) thought at first that the famous image of Hackman shooting the criminal at the top of the steps was offensive since he would never actually shoot someone InTheBack, but he realized later on how the moment worked on film and forgave it.
* {{Sequel}}: 1975's ''French Connection II'', which has Doyle traveling to Marseilles in pursuit of Charnier, finding himself a FishOutOfWater in the French city, and being forced into heroin addiction by Charnier's henchmen. Unlike the original, the sequel's plot is entirely fictional.
** Then there was ''Popeye Doyle'', a 1986 MadeForTVMovie featuring Ed O'Neill in the title role.
* SkeletonKeyCard: Cloudy breaks into Popeye's apartment with a credit card.
* StopOrIWillShoot: 'Popeye' guns down the EL assassin as he [[InTheBack turns to flee]], despite the fact that a) he's now unarmed, and b) Popeye couldn't have been sure the man was the same guy who'd taken a shot at him earlier, as there was little opportunity to get a clear look at his face.
* SpiritualSuccessor: 1973's ''The Seven-Ups'', starring Roy Scheider as another New York City cop leading a special organized crime task force. It had the same producer and composer of ''TheFrenchConnection'' and also had a high speed car chase.
* StarMakingRole: For Gene Hackman.
* ThrowItIn: Tradition has it that the famous baby carriage moment was an accident during filming. In truth it was staged. However, earlier in the chase scene there's a moment where another car smashes into Hackman's at an intersection, and that ''was'' a genuine accident that was left in. The driver was a random guy on his way to work. The production company paid for the repairs.
* TranslationConvention: Averted, with a lot of (subtitled) French dialogue.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
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