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...Gene Hackman is back behind the badge as Popeye Doyle. Comparisons with his initial appearance as Doyle are inevitable, especially since Hackman won the Oscar for that part the first time around. Here he is even better because the role has been extended and made a little more difficult. In French Connection II, Doyle is shipped over to Marseille complete with ankle gun and porkpie hat, a regular good-will ambassador from New York's finest. "I'd rather be a lamp post in New York than the President of France," he snarls at his Gallic counterpart (Bernard...
Cold Turkey. The middle portion of the movie shows Doyle trying to go cold turkey, and it is here that Hackman does some of his finest work. Many actors have tried to get under a junk ie's skin, but when Hack man weighs in, the subject might as well never have come up before. He gets it all: the desperation, the gargoyle fantasies, the sickness and the terror...
...yessir that lonesome American cowboy Popeye is some fella. William Friedkin is not an untalented director by any means, nor is this really a bad movie, but it opened the door to so many repulsive ones that their grimy taste seems to merge with this in the memory. Gene Hackman's work here, like so much of the rest of it, is very good acting despite the fact that it seems like no acting...
...Director Peter Bogdanovich. "I think we bombed in there," fretted Burt Reynolds after 500 guests of 20th Century-Fox had left a pre-supper screening of the musical in which he stars with Bogdanovich's live-in true love, Cybill Shepherd. The Hollywood elite, including Liza Minnelli, Gene Hackman, Gregory Peck, Roy Rogers, Merle Oberon and Valerie Perrine, adjourned for veal and ambrosiana amid the opulent sets used in the film. Shepherd, perhaps sensing the dour mood of the crowd, made good her getaway. "I've got another party to go to," she announced as the first dinner...
...CONVERSATION. Francis Coppola's remarkable and moving study of an electronic surveillance expert (wonderfully acted by Gene Hackman) and his inadvertent, frightening implication in a crime. The movie also concerns rituals of ruptured privacy, and has a prevailing urgency which moves it past mere topicality...