Here's how Hackman's car chase scenes were shot ... might I suggest watching "The French Connection" (obviously), "The Royal Tenenbaums," Hoosiers," and "The Conversation" as great places ...

'One of the most exciting chase films ever made' that would go on to win five Oscars will be shown on TV tonight. The French ...

The three-minute-something scene after Gene Hackman’s brash New York cop Jimmy ‘Popeye’ Doyle commandeers a brown Pontiac LeMans to chase a hijacked elevated train carrying escaping hitman ...

They chase him down the street, eventually catch him on a patch of wasteland and gleefully beat him up. This is how we encounter Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle (Gene Hackman) in William Friedkin’s The French ...

In his Oscar-winning role as a violent, thuggish cop on a mission in “The French Connection,” he showcases unnerving levels of adrenaline and thirst for justice: The way he grits his teeth during the ...

Gene Hackman, the Oscar-winning actor whose gruff but soulful turns in classics like “The French ... French Connection,” taking the wheel for arguably the most electrifying car chase in ...