The Connection
Experimental director Shirley Clarke's first feature film is a no-compromise look at the dead-end world of drug addiction in Manhattan. Awaiting their next connection, eight dopers sit in a bleak New York loft. The addicts agree to allow filmmaker William Redfield to shoot a documentary of their lifestyle--for a price. When their connection arrives, he suspects the filmmaker of being a narc and abruptly runs away. The film ends with Redfield agreeing to try some heroin himself in order to more thoroughly understand his actors. While it appears totally improvised (especially a supposedly impromptu jam session with four musician junkies), The Connection was adapted from a play by Jack Gelber. Roscoe Lee Browne appears in the cast in one of his earliest movie roles.
| Director: | Shirley Clarke |
| Studio: | Films Around The World [us] |
| Producer(s): | Lewis Allen, Shirley Clarke |
| Cast: | Warren Finnerty, Jerome Raphael, Garry Goodrow, James Anderson, Carl Lee |
| Writer(s): | Jack Gelber |
