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The Wild True Story Behind The French Connection's Car Chase – Filmed At 90 MPH On Real Streets With One Actual Crash

William Friedkin's 1971 action thriller features a famous chase scene that has gone down as one of the best in cinema, but filming the scene was quite risky. Friedkin's The French Connection opened to ...
NPR

William Friedkin, director of 'The Exorcist' and 'The French Connection,' dead at 87

LOS ANGELES — William Friedkin, the Oscar winning director who became a top filmmaker in his 30s with the gripping "The French Connection" and the horrifying "The Exorcist" and struggled in the ...
The New York Times

William Friedkin, Director of ‘French Connection’ and ‘Exorcist,’ Dies at 87

He made his name with two of the biggest box-office hits of the 1970s. But despite some later successes, he never regained his early acclaim. By William Grimes William Friedkin, a filmmaker whose ...