The screenplay by Ernest Tidyman about a crackdown on a multi-million dollar international dope smuggling ring was based on Robin Moore""s best-selling 1969 bookThe French Connection.Allen co-starred in six of them, and directed seven:Play It Again, Sam (1972), director: Herbert Ross, star: Woody AllenSleeper (1973), director and star: Woody AllenLove and Death (1975), director and star: Woody AllenAnnie Hall (1977), director and star: Woody AllenInteriors (1978), director: Woody AllenManhattan (1979), director and star: Woody AllenRadio Days (1987), director: Woody AllenManhattan Murder Mystery (1993), director and star: Woody AllenThere were two Academy Award Nominations (with no wins): Best Supporting Actress (Mariel Hemingway, in her sole Oscar-nominated performance), and Best Original Screenplay (Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman).The film is also a social chronicling of the rough-hewn, simple lives of migrant American harvest workers in the Gilded Age during a time of growing industrialization, told with a mix of classical music, contemporary music, and natural sounds.The Sum of All Fears (2002)d.Phil Alden Robinson, 124 minutesFilm Plot SummaryUnder the credits, a nuclear weapon was loaded into a sole, Israeli A-4 jet-fighter, as captioned history was presented about the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East: "In 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack against Israel.