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Synopsis: Serpico is a cop in the 1960s-early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues, he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico, and he's in constant danger of being placed in life threatening positions by his "partners". Nothing seems to get done even when he goes to the highest of authorities. Despite the dangers he finds himself in, he still refuses to 'go with the flow', in the hope that one day, the truth will be known.
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
87
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
R
Year:
1973
130 min
2,486 Views


on this. It's my collar.

You really want the collar, kid?

You can be brought up on charges.

Left your post, the street, entered

the school yard without permission...

That's just for openers.

Right, Penella?

No memo entry. Sh*t. You'll be lucky

to end up with a reprimand.

We'll give you an assist

on the arrest, kid.

Come on, Frankie!

Jim, get out of the way!

What are you doing?

What you want me to do?

Go across the street?

- Hey, Frank.

- Hi, Uncle Will. How you doing?

- Hey, Pasquale.

- Hey, Frankie! How you doing?

Okay. How you doing?

Where's Pop?

Be back in a half hour.

How's it going, Frankie?

Okay.

I come to get my shoes.

Rev it up. Rev it up!

- Here they are.

- Frankie, how you doing?

Okay. Good job.

You people do good work here.

So, how you doing, Frankie?

You keep asking me that. What's

the matter with you? I'm doing okay!

Well, I thought you were coming over

to the house Saturday night.

I'm sorry, Pasquale.

I couldn't make it.

Margaret invited Marianne over.

Marianne was very disappointed...

Now, look. I don't like that.

I mean, really.

Don't invite people over

if you're not sure I'm gonna come.

I mean it, now. If I want to

see Marianne, I'll call her.

What's going on

with you two anyway?

Hey, Pasquale,

I'm gonna tell you something.

See, all day long,

I work with cops. Right?

Now, when I go out,

I see Marianne...

her father's a cop, her brother's

a cop, her uncle's a cop.

- I got a feeling she's a cop too.

- Come here!

- How you doing on the job?

- It's got its problems.

Mama tells me that you're looking

for a new apartment. Is that true?

- Yeah.

- So, where are you going?

I don't know.

I'm looking around by school.

NYU? Greenwich Village?

- Yeah, Greenwich Village.

- What's the matter?

The old neighborhood's

not good enough for ya?

Tell Pop I was here.

Frankie, Sunday?

Sunday what?

Dinner? Huh?

- Do me one favor- no Marianne.

- I know. No Marianne.

All right.

A couple of announcements.

"Announcing a course in

fingerprint identification...

to be given at John Jay College.

This course will be available

to those patrolmen...

who wish to make themselves

eligible for assignment...

to the Bureau of

Criminal Identification, BCI...

which is generally considered to be

a path to a detective's gold shield.

Signed, Captain McGuire."

On the board on my left,

you see squad one...

Hot enough for ya?

It's not the heat.

It's the humidity.

I had a feeling

you were gonna say that.

You know how long

you're taking on that one?

Check one print category, two-

That's plenty.

I'm not gonna give a guy a

"no record" when he might have one.

How long you been

with the BCI now, Serpico?

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Waldo Salt

Waldo Miller Salt was an American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. He later won Academy Awards for Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home. more…

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