19-06-2013, 10:57 AM
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.
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.
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_Degrees1970s
By 1970 they were signed to Roulette Records and they released their first album, Maybe.[SUP][1][/SUP] The title song, this time with Valerie Holiday taking the lead vocals, took them to #4 on the US R&B charts. The singles "I Do Take You" and "You're The Fool" followed, as did their second album, So Much Love. This success landed them a cameo appearance in the 1971 film, The French Connection, filmed during one of their appearances at the Copacabana nightclub in New York, and also an engagement at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada with Engelbert Humperdinck.[SUP][1][/SUP]
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