Serpico

Sidney Lumet · 1973 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A New York patrolman who grows his hair, wears costumes on plainclothes duty and refuses his share of the envelopes passed around the precinct spends years looking for someone in the department who will act on what he reports. Every transfer puts him among men who already know what he has done. Lumet shot across more than a hundred city locations while the Knapp Commission hearings were still recent news.

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