For a moment, between the ascension of Francis Ford Coppola and that of Steven Spielberg, Hollywood’s hottest young director was William Friedkin. The one-two punch of “The French Connection” (1971) ...
Dripping with sweat, grease and blood, Roy Scheider looks like he'd rather be hunting a giant shark than driving a nitro-laden truck through a dense jungle in this hard-edged 1977 thriller. Director ...