In 1971, Director William Friedkin brought to the screen one of the grittiest, most intense crime thrillers ever - based on the true story of how two New York City police detectives made one of the largest drug busts in U.S. history.
“The French Connection”
She was a comely young woman,
and not without prospects.
Therefore it was heartbreaking
to her mother that she would
enter into marriage with
William Munny, a known thief
and murderer, a man of
notoriously vicious and
intemperate disposition.
When she died, it was not at
his hands as her mother might
have expected, but of smallpox.
That was 1878.
