The French Connection — 1971 Pontiac LeMans beneath the Brooklyn elevated railway at night
Film · 1971

The French Connection

Directed by William Friedkin

William Friedkin's New York crime thriller won five Academy Awards — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing — and produced the most frightening car chase in cinema. Not the most spectacular: the most frightening. The distinction is the film's lasting contribution.

The picture car

1971 Pontiac LeMansPicture car
Pontiac

LeMans

1971 · Brown · Four-door saloon

Commandeered from a private citizen outside a Brooklyn subway station. The most deliberately ordinary car in the history of the screen car chase.

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