Not long enough. Two••• perhaps three ••• weeks at most.

The French Connection (1971)
DEVEREAUX
A screenplay character in The French Connection (1971).
- lines
- 11
- words
- 176
- scenes
- 4
- dialogue
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Sample dialogue
These men, playing a "game" - make more money each year than many important business leaders, artists or government officials. (Zoom out) It tells us something about this country and how its men live, or go to war with a smile, and sometimes die without a cause.
scene 96 — INT: CUTTING ROOM - DAY 131It is waiting for You in the garage.
scene 185 — INT: HOTEL LOBBY - DORAL - DAY 447To make a Frenchman feel what it is like to be a New Yorker.
scene 80 — EXT: PASSENGER SHIP - DAY 97This is the new .American religion, professional football. It is where everybody goes instead of church on Sunday to express that peculiar American taste for blood- shed and violence.
scene 96 — INT: CUTTING ROOM - DAY 131The next several weeks will be very difficult and the middle of the ocean is the only place where the telephone isn•t ringing all the time.
scene 80 — EXT: PASSENGER SHIP - DAY 97
Bookends
Goodbye.