''Strike Force'' is a 1975 television film directed by

Barry Shear Barry Shear (March 23, 1923 in New York City – June 13, 1979 in Los Angeles) was an American film and television director and producer. Career Television career Shear began directing for television in the 1950s for the DuMont Television Net ...

and starring

Richard Gere Richard Tiffany Gere ( ; born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He began in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in '' Looking for Mr. Goodbar'' (1977) and a starring role in ''Days of Heaven'' (1978). He came to prominence with ...

Premise

A federal agent and a

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...

detective join forces with state trooper to break up a drug ring. Inspired by the real-life theft of the narcotics held in evidence of the

French Connection The French Connection was a scheme through which heroin was smuggled from Indochina through Turkey to France and then to the United States and Canada, sometimes through Cuba. The operation started in the 1930s, reached its peak in the 1960s, and ...

case, discovered missing from the NYPD Property clerk's office in 1972.

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* 1975 television films 1975 films Films about drugs American television films American crime films Films directed by Barry Shear 1970s English-language films 1970s American films {{US-tv-film-stub