Popeye Doyle (film)

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Popeye Doyle
Genre
  • Mystery
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Thriller
Written by Richard Di Lello [1]
Directed by Peter Levin
Starring Ed O'Neill
Candy Clark
Matthew Laurance
James Handy
Theme music composer Brad Fiedel [1]
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producer Robert Singer
ProducerRichard Di Lello
Production locations New York City
Toronto
CinematographyReginald H. Morris
EditorsTerence Anderson
Skip Schoolnik
Running time97 minutes
Production companies December 3rd Productions
20th Century Fox Television
Original release
Network NBC
ReleaseSeptember 7, 1986 (1986-09-07)

Popeye Doyle is an American 1986 television film starring Ed O'Neill as New York City police detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle. [2] It is a sequel to the feature films The French Connection (1971) and French Connection II (1975), in which Gene Hackman played Doyle; Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The French Connection. [2] Popeye Doyle was originally intended as a pilot episode for a proposed series under that title, but the series was not picked up.

Contents

Popeye Doyle is based on a real New York City detective, Eddie Egan, who appears in The French Connection as Walt Simonson, Doyle's supervisor. [3]

Premise

New York City police Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle investigates the case of a murdered model, which leads him on the trail of a gang of terrorists and a drug cartel of international smugglers.

Cast

References

  1. 1 2 "Popeye Doyle Production Credits". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . 2015. Archived from the original on July 13, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Hal Erickson (2015). "Popeye Doyle". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on July 23, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Eddie Egan Biography". Yahoo! .
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