The 2 movies
The French Connection (1971)segment
Covered in a segment of this episode
The Seven-Ups (1973)segment
Covered in a segment of this episode
Show notes
How the New York cop movies of the 1970s sculpted (and whitewashed) the public perception of the NYPD The New York movie and the New York cop movie are inextricably intertwined – so much so that the first major studio picture of the talking era to be shot in New York, The Naked City, was a cop movie. But in the years following the protests and policing reforms of the 1960s, Gotham cop movies like The French Connection and The Seven-Ups focused on a specific kind of New York cop, who could only clean up the mean st...
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