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Feb 1, 2024 · Beginning in the 1930s, the French Connection was a drug-smuggling operation initiated by Corsican gangsters, who would ship poppy seeds from Turkey and Lebanon to Marseille, where the seeds would then be processed into heroin and transported to the United States in volumes measuring tens of tonnes. Friedkin added several of his own flourishes ...
Dec 15, 1972 · The real story behind “The French Connection”—the slightly fictionalized film account of the smashing of heroin‐smuggling ring—goes back to 1962. The leader of the ring was a tall ...
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Tany Zampa was just a mid-level mob enforcer when the French Connection was first taking hold of Marseille. After serving time for carrying firearms in 1964, he began to invest in heroin alongside prostitution and gambling rackets, eventually controlling most of the clubs and bars in the city. After the assassination of feared mobster Antoine Guéri...
Céline is speaking to me because of a new film that depicts her father as the kingpin of La French. The Connection is the European side of a story made famous by Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle on the streets of New York. But this is a very different film to The French Connection, as the characters in The Connection are all real. The sense of realism i...
The following evening I join Jimenez and Céline for dinner near the Vieux-Port harbour, a symbol of Marseille’s maritime heritage. The pair have known each other a long time – they first met at the bar next to Jimenez’s father’s. “That venue belonged to my father’s sister,” Céline says. “That’s the place I met Cédric. He did the right thing, he cam...
It’s clear from watching The Connection that Jimenez has as much respect for the powerful Zampa as he does for the crusading efforts of Michel in taking on the mob. He depicts them as opposite sides of the same coin, two alpha males determined to follow their goals. “Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche don’t look like one another, but we made them l...
Aug 8, 2021 · The chief and brains of the operation, Charnier, also known as “Frog One,” is based on drug kingpin Jean Jehan. According to another New York Times article from 1972 , he “was a tall, dapper ...
The real-life French Connection is the story of two swaggering NYPD cops and their 1960-62 operation to intercept a French heroin shipment with a street value today of $32m. The NYPD operation began with an unexpected tip-off from an FBI agent, Sonny said in a conversation with film director/producer William Friedkin.
Sep 30, 2024 · ITV’s new six-part series, Joan, is inspired by the true life story of Joan Hannington, who was formerly a successful jewel thief in the 1980s and was known to some in that criminal world as "The Godmother". The show’s writer, Anna Symon, met with the real Joan Hannington whilst working on the series, as did Sophie Turner.
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Apr 17, 2019 · Red Joan is based on a true story, ... The movie explores Joan's younger years, where she quickly rose to full agent for the proto-KGB and was given the code name "Hola." In the early years of ...
