" Once the US Security Council received the report of the delivery about six hours later, he predicted a "military strike within a week.BackgroundThe French Connection(1971) is director William Friedkin""s brilliant, fast-paced, brutally-realistic police/crime film - his commercial break-through film ("The time is just right for an out and out thriller like this").As they returned home, Trish""s car broke down, and Tommy attempted to fix the problem with a screwdriver...I grabbed it off his head." Her mother stared back in horror.In their kitchen the next day, Nancy (who hadn""t slept all night) overheard her mother on the phone talking about he fedora - and then when questioned, her mother claimed she had hrown the "filthy thing" away: "I don""t know where you really found it or what you""re trying to prove.