The French Connection

Why is this film cut on Apple? The film is not aimed at kids and has a rating to reflect it is not aimed at kids, so why has Apple cut this film? If you don’t like the content of the film then don’t watch it. Stop pandering to snowflakes! What next? More classic films being cut so as not to offend snowflakes? Burning iBooks? Expected better from Apple!

Do not buy or rent film has been cut to pieces

Brilliant film, but cut! It’s an Oscar winner! Don’t mess with films on the off chance it might offend the snowflakes. By all means put a warning on it, but don’t cut it. Book burning next?

Films been cut get Disney and watch it on there apple have no right to vut this film no matter how bad the scene it’s not down to them.

Brilliant film, but don’t buy it until iTunes releases a decent quality version.

Please put the Extras And 4K On Thank You 🙂👍🏻

Great Film, all time classic. Unfortunately the iTunes version uses the terrible tinkered original blu-ray transfer by director William Friedkin. The director put the film through an elaborate controversial digital overhaul that radically altered the photography to give the movie what Friedkin described as “pastel” colours. The transfer suffers from jacked-up contrasts, smeary colors and a sickly purple tinge over almost everything. For the best video presentation of the French Connection - look out for the Blu Ray March 2012+ release.

Made for very little money and based on a factual novel about two New York Narcotics cops, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, The French Connection was groundbreaking and to this day is held up as one of the greatest films ever made. Gene Hackman won the Oscar for best actor and rightly so, Popeye Doyle was the first true anti hero cop. A violent, angry, racist detective who becomes obsessed with apprehending 'Frog One', the head of an international heroin smuggling ring. But the film has far more than just the good guy chasing the bad guy. The classic script, the car chase. The look of the film is genuinely raw giving you a real idea of the urban decay that was Brooklyn in the 1970's before it was cleaned up. Roy Scheider is also excellent as Doyle's loyal but wary partner Cloudy Russo, the more measured and professional of the two still capable of terrifying a suspect in an alley with a metal bar. This was before the Miranda Act. So for 5.99 you can own the best police thriller of all time in my opinion and many others too. Just don't get it in HD, it ruins the gritty look Freidkin was aiming for which won him the Oscar for Best Director. Oh and by the way, "Ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?"