WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — As part of its free David-Jeremiah film series this fall, the Clark Art Institute screens The "French Connection" (1971) at 6 pm on Oct. 24 in the Manton Research Center auditorium.

 

According to a press release:

 

Director William Friedkin's documentary-style account of a 1961 smashup of an international heroin-trafficking ring by two New York cops—played by two then-little-known actors, Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider—is a real-time thriller about staking out criminals, the bureaucracy of crime-fighting, class differences, and the ugliness of bigotry (especially when it wears a plain-clothes uniform). But it's also about the thrill of the chase. The French Connection won Oscars for Best Picture and Director. (Run time: 1 hour, 44 minutes)

 

Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.