Which mafia movie features the real detectives in the sting?

NYPD detectives Sonny Grosso and Eddie Egan appear in The French Connection, a film about their very own drug bust, one of the largest in U.S. history. Although they didn't play themselves, Egan played his boss, Walt Simonson, while Grosso played federal agent Clyde Klein.

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