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Written by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from Peter Maas’s best-selling biography, Sidney Lumet’s Serpico premieres in New York. Set in the late sixties, early seventies, Al Pacino is Frank Serpico, the real-life NYPD officer who survives harassment, ostracisation and finally a bullet to the face when he goes undercover to expose crime and corruption within the New York police department. A gritty, quintessentially 70s crime classic set in the same murky milieu that Lumet revisits six years later with the grandly complex Prince Of The City.
