December 5 1975 

SERPICO opens in NY.  Directed by Sidney Lumet. Written by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler, from the novel by Peter Maas. Lumet's Prince of the City dry run stars Al Pacino as the titular idealistic undercover cop who survived ostracisation & a bullet to the face exposing the long ingrained culture of graft & corruption within the NYPD. With John Randolph, Jack Kehoe and Tony Roberts.

 

 

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