Serpico
SERPICO (18)
D: Sidney Lumet
Paramount/Artists Entertainment (Martin
Bregman)
US 1973
130 mins
Crime/Biopic
W: Waldo Salt & Norman Wexler [based
on the book by Peter Maas]
DP: Arthur J. Ornitz
Ed: Dede Allen
Mus: Mikis Theodorakis
Al Pacino (Frank Serpico), John Randolph
(Chief Sidney Green), Jack Kehoe (Tom Keough), Biff McGuire (McClain)
Al Pacino gives one of his career-best performances as
Frank Serpico, an honest cop in corrupt precinct who is forced to leave the country after he becomes a whistleblower.
Alarmingly based on a true story, director Sidney Lumet
presents a gloomy and violent vision of police corruption.
A must-watch for all Al Pacino fans. This is the movie he
should have won an Oscar for (he eventually won in 1992 for Scent Of A Woman).
8/10
