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Shaft and French Connection 1971 - Phil Dragoo - 19-06-2013 Philip J. Sneed, president of Unity Bank & Trust, 416 Warren Street, Roxbury, Mass. Six-two, two-and-a-quarter, karate, weightlifting, well-turned out in a suit of the time--black, not Lord & Taylor. At the employees meeting, sixty-two, two whites, yours truly and Shirley running the posting machine in bookkeeping, Mr. Sneed says: "Sneed don't take no shit from nobody, walkin' or ridin', slippin' or slidin'." He would visit the various departments and when Mr. Sneed said, "Good morning," everyone said, "Good morning." One day Nita told Audrey across my space which was dialed back to our new friend status, "Audrey, some crazy n(and she said it, had the license to say it) tried to rob Mr. Sneed's bank." This had been the scuffle in the lobby above us. The police were notified after the takedown. ~ ~ ~
As for The French Connection, police were either hicks, as in, "How about this guy, what's his name--does he need the stuff?" Barney Fife didn't understand the difference between weed and smack; or, in the alternative, some kind of sideburns, turtleneck, medallion nark, "I don't want to make a scene, but I'm willing to buy a nickel bag." On the street Ray Charles' stunt double in shades and trenchcoat flanked by his doubles distinguished by fedoras pause to offer Jacoby Fenner's little buddy Check-Check, "I got some good junk, Man." Imagine: what a future, there in the Village, having pawned everything, reduced to hustling tourists for handouts. For that injection. Historic visits to Burma. Whatever for. Shaft and French Connection 1971 - Magda Hassan - 19-06-2013 I see it was directed by Ivan Dixon of Hogan's Heroes fame. They never had any Soviet prisoners of war in their camp....or even mentioned them....like they just didn't even exist.... Looks great Keith. Now I'll have to look for the rest of it. Sam Greenlee certainly led an 'interesting' life. Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Keith Millea Wrote:I own one Blaxploitation movie.It's about a black cia agent who gets fed up with the agency abuse and decides to train a guerilla army to fight back.I imagine the agency didn't much like this movie at all,and probably tried to supress it at the time..I see that the whole movie is on Youtube now. Shaft and French Connection 1971 - Magda Hassan - 19-06-2013 Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Thank you Jan! I was looking for Jane Fonda in the credits but she wasn't in this was she? I think it was Klute with Sutherland and Scheider I am getting mixed up with.Magda Hassan Wrote:I tried to down load Shaft but, ahem, will make sure next time there are no minors in the room when I go searching....it was quite alarming....So it will have to wait as my memory is too long gone to be of much use there. Shaft and French Connection 1971 - David Guyatt - 19-06-2013 I was also impressed by Roy Snyder in this film too. For me his performance in The Marathon Man was also excellent. But I have a question. I recall a scene where Doyle and his partner were present in the Cocabanana nightclub eyeing wise guys and it was there where he got a lead. I've Googled but can't find any mention of this in the film's locations etc. Am I mis-remembering? I certainly hope not, because I was so taken with the film at the time, that on a business visit to Manhattan in the late 1970's, I even spent an evening in the Cocabanana chewing a burned steak and listening to a second rate band. Very disappointing. Shaft and French Connection 1971 - Magda Hassan - 19-06-2013 David Guyatt Wrote:I was also impressed by Roy Snyder in this film too. For me his performance in The Marathon Man was also excellent. No it was there. In the wiki for the Three Degrees, the girl band singing in the club it is mentioned too: Quote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Degrees Shaft and French Connection 1971 - David Guyatt - 19-06-2013 Thanks for that Magda. Phew! No need to get some anti-Dementia pills from the doctor today. Shaft and French Connection 1971 - Jan Klimkowski - 19-06-2013 David Guyatt Wrote:But I have a question. I recall a scene where Doyle and his partner were present in the Cocabanana nightclub eyeing wise guys and it was there where he got a lead. I've Googled but can't find any mention of this in the film's locations etc. Am I mis-remembering? As Magda says, the band was The Three Degrees, whilst Hackman and Schneider spot some dodgy dealings. You can see a snatch of the scene in The French Connection trailer I posted above in post #9, about 25 seconds in. Shaft and French Connection 1971 - Phil Dragoo - 20-06-2013 The French Connection -- Video Tribute Shaft and French Connection 1971 - Magda Hassan - 20-06-2013 Bad Santa. ![]() Shaft and French Connection 1971 - Jan Klimkowski - 01-07-2013 David Guyatt Wrote:Hackman is a brilliant actor - from his gritty cynicism in Mississippi Burning through to his role as Sgt. Johnny Gallagher in the excellent film The Package, he is pure quality. Can you imagine how different the movie would have been with a bigger budget and minus Hackman? Quote:Though the cast ultimately proved to be one of the film's greatest strengths, Friedkin had problems with casting choices from the start. He was strongly opposed to the choice of Hackman for the lead, and actually first considered Paul Newman (out of the budget range), then Jackie Gleason, Peter Boyle and a New York columnist, Jimmy Breslin, who had never acted before.[4] However, Gleason, at that time, was considered box-office poison by the studio after his film Gigot had flopped several years before, Boyle declined the role after disapproving of the violent theme of the film, and Breslin refused to get behind the wheel of a car, which was required of Popeye's character for an integral car chase scene. Steve McQueen was also considered, but he did not want to do another police film after Bullitt and, as with Newman, his fee would have exceeded the movie's budget. Tough guy Charles Bronson was also considered for the role. Friedkin almost settled for Rod Taylor (who had actively pursued the role, according to Hackman), another choice the studio approved, before he went with Hackman. |