Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, Italy
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
- new york city
- corruption
- hippie
- police
- biography
- idealism
- based on true story
- idealist
- money
- undercover cop
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Al Pacino
Officer Frank Serpico
John Randolph
Sidney Green
Jack Kehoe
Tom Keough
Biff McGuire
Captain McClain
- Barbara Eda-Young — Laurie
- Cornelia Sharpe — Leslie Lane
- Tony Roberts — Bob Blair
- John Medici — Pasquale
- Allan Rich — D. A. Tauber
- Norman Ornellas — Rubello
- Edward Grover — Lombardo
- Albert Henderson — Peluce
- Hank Garrett — Malone
- Damien Leake — Joey
- Joseph Bova — Potts
- Directed
- Sidney Lumet
- Written
- Norman Wexler, Waldo Salt
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 2,251 ratings
- Studio
- Artists Entertainment Complex, Produzioni De Laurentiis - International Manufacturing Compa, The De Laurentiis Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
