Shaft and French Connection 1971

[Charles Drago]

Taylor as Popeye Doyle? I think not.

Oooh, no I can't see that either...Taylor is too much a gentleman. Lacks the grit of Hackman. Would have been a completely different beast with him cast as Popeye.

Exactly. Taylor's chivalry -- or rather, his ability to express a chivalric core within the gruffest of exteriors -- is on full display in the aforementioned Chuka.

So too is the exquisite Luciana Paluzzi -- although she's no Senta Berger.

But I digress.