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Serpico
Directed by
Sidney Lumet
R
1973
2h 10m
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An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
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Cast of Serpico
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
Gene Gross
Captain Tolkin
John Stewart
Waterman
Woodie King Jr.
Larry
James Tolkan
Steiger
Ed Crowley
Barto
Bernard Barrow
Palmer
Sal Carollo
Mr. Serpico
Mildred Clinton
Mrs. Serpico
Nathan George
Smith
Gus Fleming
Dr. Metz
Richard Foronjy
Corsaro
Alan North
Brown
Lewis J. Stadlen
Berman
John McQuade
Kellogg
Ted Beniades
Sarno
John Lehne
Gilbert
M. Emmet Walsh
Gallagher
George Ede
Daley
Charles White
Delaney
F. Murray Abraham
Detective Partner (uncredited)
P.J. Benjamin
Man (uncredited)
Don Billett
Detective Threatening Serpico (uncredited)
Val Bisoglio
Weapons Storage Officer (uncredited)
John Brandon
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
James Bulleit
Det. Styles (uncredited)
Roy Cheverie
Cop (uncredited)
Sam Coppola
Cop (uncredited)
Marjorie Eliot
Rape Victim (uncredited)
René Enríquez
Cervantes Teacher (uncredited)
Conard Fowkes
Cop - Narcotics Raid (uncredited)
Frank Gio
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Trent Gough
Cop (uncredited)
Paul E. Guskin
Police Academy Classmate (uncredited)
Nick Hardin
Television Cameraman (uncredited)
Judd Hirsch
Cop (uncredited)
Richard Kuss
Detective (uncredited)
Tony Lo Bianco
Cop (uncredited)
George Loros
Det. Glover (uncredited)
Kenneth McMillan
Charlie (uncredited)
Stephen Pearlman
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Tim Pelt
Black Hood (uncredited)
William Pelt
Black Hood (uncredited)
Jay Rasumny
Television Cameraman (uncredited)
Franklin Scott
Black Prisoner (uncredited)
Tom Signorelli
Bookmaker (uncredited)
Ben Slack
Detective Sitting At Desk (uncredited)
Jaime Sánchez
Cop (uncredited)
Tracey Walter
Street Urchin (uncredited)
Mary Louise Weller
Sally - Girl at Party (uncredited)
Judd Omen
Doctor
Sidney Lumet
Director
Waldo Salt
Writer
Norman Wexler
Writer
Peter Maas
Writer
Martin Bregman
Producer
Serpico Ratings & Reviews
Spanktacular
July 4, 2025
"The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist, in which an honest police officer can act without fear or ridicule or reprisal from his fellow officers."
Slant Magazine
Derek Smith
Sidney Lumet's Serpico is an exemplar of a certain brand of character-based social realism that Hollywood excelled at in the 1970s, as well as an essential time capsule of New York City during the same period.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Serpico feels like a deeply cynical and suspicious picture, but this is tempered by its faith in the unflagging decency of its central crusader.
Solzy at the Movies
Danielle Solzman
Al Pacino is absolutely phenomenal as a police officer fighting corruption in Serpico.
Newsweek
Paul D. Zimmerman
Al Pacino is destined to become the next big American film star. The proof lies in his ability to transform so mediocre a cop movie as Serpico into a glittering showcase for his growing talents.
New Pittsburgh Courier
Gregory Mims
It's Pacino's show anyway. His performance alone makes this film worth seeing. Pacino is Serpico. Pacino is "Serpico."
Esquire Magazine
John Simon
As the protagonist, Al Pacino is spectacular... He has now learned how to convert this fierceness into a look of intense moral commitment or zanily lovable passion, and so turn the fuzzy implications of the script into disturbing realities.
Los Angeles Free Press
Dick Lochte
The lead role has gone, quite correctly, to Al Pacino, who does very well by it.
TIME Magazine
Jay Cocks
Wonderful potential, and wasted. Serpico has some brutal surface flash and an acetylene performance by Al Pacino in the title role, but its energy is used to dodge all the questions it should have raised and answered.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
"Serpico" is a candid and gritty police expose film that juxtaposes systematic police graft with the personal toll it takes on the man who attempts to blow the lid on the crooked activities that surround him.
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Sean Axmaker
... set the style of American crime dramas in the seventies with his gritty look at street-level law enforcement and realistic portrait of procedure and systemic failure and it established Lumet as a director of intelligent, gritty, modern crime dramas
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Lumet and screenwriters Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler can't do anything but skim rapidly over the surface of their tale.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Imbued with mythic and even religious dimensions, Al Pacino's resourceful, Oscar-nominated performance takes Lumet's quinessential 1970s New York film beyond the realm of a cop-corruption drama.
Variety
Variety Staff
Sidney Lumet's direction adeptly combines gritty action and thought-provoking comment.
TV Guide
When all is said and done, Pacino is the riveting presence that makes the movie work and it is difficult to imagine any other actor in the part.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
A virtuoso performance by Al Pacino and some expert location work by Sidney Lumet add up to a tour de force genre piece that transcends the supercop conventions to create a moving, engrossing portrait of Frank Serpico.
Moviehole
Caffeinated Clint
One of the best films of our time, and our grandkids' time. "Serpico" is pure Pacino, powerful as hell.
Apollo Guide
Ryan Cracknell
Very much an Al Pacino vehicle, not that this is a bad thing.
Village Voice
Benjamin Strong
Lumet's biopic of Frank Serpico, the virtuous cop who exposed a network of graft in the NYPD, feels depressingly relevant.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
A remarkable record of one man's rebellion against the sort of sleaziness and second-rateness that has affected so much American life, from the ingredients of its hamburgers to the ethics of its civil servants and politicians.
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