Synopsis
Many of his fellow officers considered him the most dangerous man alive - An honest cop.
The real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system.
1973 Directed by Sidney Lumet
The real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system.
Al Pacino John Randolph Jack Kehoe Biff McGuire Barbara Eda-Young Cornelia Sharpe Tony Roberts John Medici Allan Rich Norman Ornellas Edward Grover Albert Henderson Hank Garrett Damien Leake Joseph Bova Gene Gross John Stewart Woodie King Jr. James Tolkan Ed Crowley Bernard Barrow Sal Carollo Mildred Clinton Nathan George Gus Fleming Richard Foronjy Alan North Lewis J. Stadlen John McQuade Show All…
De Laurentiis Entertainment Group Artists Entertainment Complex Produzioni De Laurentiis - International Manufacturing Company Paramount
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of course i liked serpico, it has:
- al pacino with a beard
- al pacino with an earring
- al pacino wearing overalls and sandals
- al pacino with a puppy
- al pacino speaking italian and spanish
- al pacino riding a motorcycle
- al pacino trying to dance ballet
- al pacino with a ponytail
70s al pacino isn't just a snack; he's breakfast, brunch, lunch, supper, dinner, and dessert all at once even with that hobo/hippie look
The NYPD pulls the old good cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop bad cop routine.
al pacino trying to reform a corrupt system and slowly transforming into fashionable new york jesus while doing it made me feel some type of way
"was al pacino at peak fuckability in heat (1995) or serpico (1973)" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate
the yearning that i, a 20 year old lesbian, have for 1970’s tender al pacino is otherworldly. it’s sick.
Traffics in the principled obviousness of Frank’s single-minded campaign to resist police corruption but also feels like watching it die a slow, painful death. It speaks to how good Lumet and Pacino were at this time that even a work that occasionally feels this long and meandering doesn’t feel so out of disinterest or accident but out of deliberate frustration and exhaustion with the ineffectual reform process. Some of the attempts to be exposing or rousing probably played a bit better in 1973 than they do after 5 decades of the problem being much worse than anything depicted here but it benefits a lot from the New Hollywood era of paranoia, sweat and grime; where you could generate danger out of…