Popeye Doyle (film)

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Popeye Doyle
Genre
  • Mystery
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Thriller
Written byRichard Di Lello[1]
Directed byPeter Levin
StarringEd O'Neill
Candy Clark
Matthew Laurance
James Handy
Theme music composerBrad Fiedel[1]
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producerRobert Singer
ProducerRichard Di Lello
Production locationsNew York City
Toronto
CinematographyReginald H. Morris
EditorsTerence Anderson
Skip Schoolnik
Running time97 min.
Production companiesDecember 3rd Productions
20th Century Fox Television
DistributorNBC
Release
Original networkNBC
Picture formatColor
Audio formatMono
Original releaseSeptember 7, 1986 (1986-09-07)

Popeye Doyle is an American 1986 television film starring Ed O'Neill.[2]

It was based on the character who Gene Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying in the film The French Connection.[2] The character is based on a real-life New York City police detective, Eddie Egan, who also appeared 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.

References[]

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

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