Ein ehrlicher New Yorker Polizist namens Frank Serpico pfeift über die grassierende Korruption in der Macht, nur um seine Kameraden gegen ihn wenden zu lassen.Ein ehrlicher New Yorker Polizist namens Frank Serpico pfeift über die grassierende Korruption in der Macht, nur um seine Kameraden gegen ihn wenden zu lassen.Ein ehrlicher New Yorker Polizist namens Frank Serpico pfeift über die grassierende Korruption in der Macht, nur um seine Kameraden gegen ihn wenden zu lassen.
- Für 2 Oscars nominiert
- 8 Gewinne & 13 Nominierungen insgesamt
Barbara Eda-Young
- Laurie
- (as Barbara eda-Young)
Edward Grover
- Lombardo
- (as Ed Grover)
Albert Henderson
- Peluce
- (as Al Henderson)
Joseph Bova
- Potts
- (as Joe Bova)
Woodie King Jr.
- Larry
- (as Woodie King)
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- WissenswertesAfter he decided to make the film, Al Pacino invited Frank Serpico to stay with him at a house that Pacino had rented in Montauk, New York. When Pacino asked Serpico, "Why did you do it?" Serpico replied, "Well, Al, I don't know. I guess I would have to say it would be because if I didn't, who would I be when I listened to a piece of music?"
- PatzerThe prison "chain gang" being led into the wagon at the beginning has male and female prisoners on the same "chain," and both sexes are transported in the same wagon. The NYPD absolutely forbade that then--and still does.
- Zitate
Frank Serpico: The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry--it just gets dirtier.
- Alternative VersionenThere is one Australian VHS version released through RCA Columbia Pictures Hoyts Home Video in the 1980s which had all profanity overdubbed with tamer language, as well as some scenes of sexuality/nudity. Subsequent releases on DVD are uncensored.
- VerbindungenEdited into The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
Ausgewählte Rezension
(1973)
Sidney Lumet's Serpico is based on such a compelling story, and is told so well, you really can't not like it. Al Pacino dominates, and he is in every scene. This means the movie is based almost literally on what Frank Serpico saw and did as a moral and unshakeable cop in New York just before the film was made.
It's filmed with gritty realism but without sensationalism, though you might say a little artlessly, too, as if Lumet just wants to get the job done and not get in the way. In fact, Lumet wasn't involved in pre-production, called in just a filming was to start, so there might be a disconnect there. The support cast--mostly other cops plus two sometimes convincing girlfriends--is very good, though very few of them are developed at all.
So it's a very good film with a great story--a plain enough summary of a movie that won't let you go. But wait, you do have to let Pacino take a bow for another absorbing, intense performance. It's his movie. And Frank Serpico, who just saw it for the first time last year, after carefully avoiding it for almost forty years. A great article of the real Serpico from January 2010 can be found by typing "Serpico on Serpico" in google, and look for the New York Times article, worth the fast read!
Sidney Lumet's Serpico is based on such a compelling story, and is told so well, you really can't not like it. Al Pacino dominates, and he is in every scene. This means the movie is based almost literally on what Frank Serpico saw and did as a moral and unshakeable cop in New York just before the film was made.
It's filmed with gritty realism but without sensationalism, though you might say a little artlessly, too, as if Lumet just wants to get the job done and not get in the way. In fact, Lumet wasn't involved in pre-production, called in just a filming was to start, so there might be a disconnect there. The support cast--mostly other cops plus two sometimes convincing girlfriends--is very good, though very few of them are developed at all.
So it's a very good film with a great story--a plain enough summary of a movie that won't let you go. But wait, you do have to let Pacino take a bow for another absorbing, intense performance. It's his movie. And Frank Serpico, who just saw it for the first time last year, after carefully avoiding it for almost forty years. A great article of the real Serpico from January 2010 can be found by typing "Serpico on Serpico" in google, and look for the New York Times article, worth the fast read!
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- Lewisohn Stadium, Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(Meeting Scene with Bob Blair)
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- 3.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
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- 29.800.000 $
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- 29.857.918 $
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