Serpico 1973

Release date

12/18/1973

Directors

Sidney Lumet

Writers

Waldo Salt, Peter Maas, Norman Wexler

New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

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