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Release Date:
14 maaliskuu 1974 (Netherlands)
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Tagline:
Many of his fellow officers considered him the most dangerous man alive - An honest cop.
Plot:
The true story about an honest New York cop who blew the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him. full summary | add synopsis
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Undercover
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Corruption
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1960s
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Hippie
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Policeman
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 4 wins
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7 nominations
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honest filmaking, good and true story of corruption in NY police department
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Al Pacino | ... | Officer Frank Serpico |
 | John Randolph | ... | Chief Sidney Green |
 | Jack Kehoe | ... | Tom Keough |
| Biff McGuire | ... | Capt. Insp. McClain |
| Barbara Eda-Young | ... | Laurie |
 | Cornelia Sharpe | ... | Leslie Lane |
| Tony Roberts | ... | Bob Blair |
| John Medici | ... | Pasquale |
 | Allan Rich | ... | Dist. Atty. Herman Tauber |
| Norman Ornellas | ... | Don Rubello |
| Edward Grover | ... | Insp. Lombardo (as Ed Grover) |
| Albert Henderson | ... | Peluce (as Al Henderson) |
| Hank Garrett | ... | Malone |
 | Damien Leake | ... | Joey |
| Joseph Bova | ... | Potts (as Joe Bova) |
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Runtime:
129 min | Spain:113 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Germany:12 (re-rating) (2006) |
West Germany:18 (original rating) |
Iceland:16 |
Netherlands:12 |
South Korea:15 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Brazil:12 |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:M |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-15 (DVD rating) |
Norway:18 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R
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Al Pacino's residence in the movie is located at 5-7 Minetta Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. The real-life Frank Serpico, however, lived at Perry & Greenwich, a few blocks away.
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Continuity: During the shooting gallery scene, Frank and a few other cops are practicing their marksmanship. All the bays are full except for bay two, which has the shooters table up, to allow access to the gallery itself. In the reverse scene, the table is down.
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Quotes:
Frank Serpico:
I'm a marked man in this department. For what?
District Attorney Tauber: I've already arranged a transfer for ya'.
Frank Serpico: To where? China?
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District Attorney Tauber: I've already arranged a transfer for ya'.
Frank Serpico: To where? China?
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Referenced in Saturday Night Fever (1977)
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Sidney Lumet is a director who captures something crucial in city based dramas surrounding legal and political affairs; with films like '12 angry men', 'the verdict', 'nightfalls on Manhattan' and 'Q & A' he shows an excellent grasp of the power plays in civic politics. In 'Serpico' he uses an excellent script to tell the story of an unorthodox character in Frank Serpico, a hippie in a time when most cops were square as a doorway but whose honesty when faced with police corruption marks him out as a man of remarkable character. Unflinching in its depiction of Serpico, the film portrays warts and all, over the period in which he refuses to take money and shows his extraordinary political vindication at an official investigation into NYPD corruption. The story of civic corruption is cogent in any time, one only has to look at great empires like Rome to understand how much corruption plays a part in the shaping of so called civilizations; where the very foundation stones have bodies, so to speak, buried under them or even within them. This film is both informative and honest in much the way 'All the Presidents Men' would be in the following year. Winning Al Pacino a deserved Oscar nomination in the years between the Godfather's Part I and II; it demonstrates the range of an actor who would go on to portray a character in Michael Corleone soon afterwards who is the very nemisis of the character in Serpico. In Serpico there is a dramadocumentary that calls to mind Shakespeares history plays in its depiction of a classical situation of a man ostracized and driven by noble sentiments to embody something of the civic value one expects of servants of the public trust. Brilliant film. 10 out of 10.