19-06-2013, 06:49 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:But I have a question. I recall a scene where Doyle and his partner were present in the Cocabanana nightclub eyeing wise guys and it was there where he got a lead. I've Googled but can't find any mention of this in the film's locations etc. Am I mis-remembering?
I certainly hope not, because I was so taken with the film at the time, that on a business visit to Manhattan in the late 1970's, I even spent an evening in the Cocabanana chewing a burned steak and listening to a second rate band. Very disappointing.
As Magda says, the band was The Three Degrees, whilst Hackman and Schneider spot some dodgy dealings.
You can see a snatch of the scene in The French Connection trailer I posted above in post #9, about 25 seconds in.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war