This pilot film for the TV series is the story of Officer Frank Serpico, a New York City cop who fought crime in the city and corruption in the police department.
Acting
David Birney's earnest Serpico vs. Allen Garfield's sweaty, twitchy Professor.
Production
Grimy location shooting that smells like 1976 subway platforms.
Director
Robert L. Collins
David Birney
Officer Frank Serpico
Allen Garfield
The Professor
Burt Young
Alec Rosen
Tom Atkins
Lt. Tom Sullivan
Lane Bradbury
Carol
Christine Jones
Kim
Will Kuluva
Mr. Serpico
Walter McGinn
David Doyle
Mario Roccuzzo
Pasquale Serpico
Sydney Lassick
Goldman
Anthony Charnota
Joe Simone
Richard C. Adams
Atkins
Madison Arnold
Polo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This pilot was produced by MGM Television hoping to ride the 1973 film's Oscar heat; NBC passed, but ABC aired it as a standalone movie.
The real Frank Serpico had already fled to Switzerland by 1976, making this fictional continuation oddly haunted by his actual exile.
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