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The French Connection was one of the most influential films of all time. It won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Gene Hackman. It is also widely regarded as director William Friedkin’s greatest film. Its soundtrack is the work of composer Herbie Ellis, and this release showcases it as conceived by him, supplementing familiar segments from the movie with 20 minutes of deleted material never before heard. It is a dissonant, jazzy, experimental work that nonetheless fits perfectly alongside cutting-edge ’70s crime scores by Jerry Goldsmith, Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones and others.
This edition is the last album Ellis recorded for Columbia Records before his death in a plane crash a few years later. It features the original movie score as well as his complete underscore for the 1975 sequel The french connection hello ep II, in which Popeye Doyle travels to Marseille to take on a drug ring there. The CD also presents Ellis’s arrangements of popular songs from that era, which he generally used with tongue in cheek and to great effect.
A few weeks ago, the colorful Internet columnist Jeffrey Wells ran an article titled “Woke Fascists Censor Best Picture Winner ‘The French Connection’.” It pointed out that an exchange of dialogue that some found offensive had been unceremoniously cut from a digital file of the film currently available on streaming service Criterion Channel, and everywhere else in which it has been seen. It was a noticeably bad edit in a film that does not make a habit of having noticeably bad cuts.
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