In an attempt to make the biggest bargain in his life, Alain Charnier, a French heroin dealer, who prepares for making his biggest bargain, by sending 32 million heroin to Los Angeles, but incidents come to climax, when he sends them with his kind friend Henri Devereaux, a famous television personality.
Producer Philip D'Antoni and screenwriter Ernest Tidyman have added enough fictional flesh to provide director William Friedkin and his overall topnotch cast with plenty of material, and they make the most of it.
Its trigger-fast, explosive scenes and high-tension chase sequences (the one in "Bullitt" pales by comparison) will have you literally gasping for breath.