With Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire. Serpico, directed by Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Murder on the Orient Express) and starring Al Pacino, takes… Frank Serpico is a former New York City cop whose anti-corruption stance made him unpopular in the NYPD. An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the … In 1976 David Birney starred as Serpico in a TV-movie called Serpico: The Deadly Game (also known as "The Deadly Game"), broadcast on NBC. This film was based upon the Peter Maas biography of New York police officer Frank Serpico (b. His ideals quickly reduce him to an outsider before turning him into the NYPD's enemy number one. It stars Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Bernard Barrow, Nathan George and Tony Roberts. Director Sidney Lumet's adaptation stars Al Pacino in the titular role, a good cop caught in a bad system. Frank Serpico was the New York cop who blew the whistle on corruption in the department during the Knapp Commission hearings back in 1971 – a story anyone who’d see this documentary already knows from the Al Pacino-fronted Sidney Lumet film about him two years later. Directed by Sidney Lumet. “Frank, let's face it. Serpico, a 1973 biography by Peter Maas, sold over 3 million copies. SERPICO war von PACINO so angetan, dass er später einmal in einem Interview sagte, dass dieser „ihn besser gespielt hätte als er selbst“. The 1973 biography was adapted for the 1973 film Serpico, which was directed by Sidney Lumet and starred Al Pacino in the title role. 1936), who went undercover to expose corruption in the force. Who can trust a cop who don't take money?” There’s a whole sub-genre of movies about people who stand up for the right thing even when everyone else in their lives doesn’t care. Serpico is directed by Sidney Lumet and adapted to screenplay by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from Peter Maas’ biography of NYPD officer Frank Serpico who stood up to expose rife corruption in the force. Ultimately, though, his whistleblowing efforts to call out the wrongdoing of the force and restore its reputation made him a symbol of honor, and his story was the subject of an acclaimed 1973 film starring Al Pacino. Al Pacino is on blistering form as Frank Serpico, the New York detective who made a one-man stand against corruption in the police force. Interessant ist, dass AL PACINO, nachdem klar war dass er ihn im Film spielen sollte, den echten FRANK SERPICO bat, mit ihm in ein Haus zu ziehen, damit er ihn besser kennenlernen könne.