Popeye Doyle (1986)
While Popeye Doyle is investigating what appears to be a very simple drug overdose, he becomes involved in international intrigue. The Mosad and various other foreign diplomatic figures turn up everywhere he goes. The drug overdose becomes a very involved murder case.
- Date of release
- 1986-09-07
- TMDB
- 4.4 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Thriller, TV Movie, Crime
- Director
- Peter Levin
Casting
- Ed O'Neill — Popeye Doyle
- Matthew Laurance — Tony Parese
- Candy Clark — Corinne Evans
- George De La Pena — Itan Kellerman / The Shadow
- Audrey Landers — Jill Anneyard
- James Handy — Lieutenant Gregory Paulus
- J.K. Simmons — Patrolman in Park
- Nicholas Kadi — Auram Bardas / The Weasel
- Elias Zarou — Fahoud Nazzim
- Gary Tacon — Deli Bandit #1
- Phil Neilson — Deli Bandit #2
- Elizabeth Lennie — Toni
Interesting facts
Popeye Doyle is an American 1986 television film starring Ed O'Neill as New York City police detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle. 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. Popeye Doyle was originally intended as a pilot episode for a proposed series under that title, but the series was not picked up.
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