Eureka! Entertainment to release SERPICO, Sidney Lumet’s crime drama about police corruption on the streets of New York, in Blu-ray and Limited Edition Blu-ray SteelBook editions, as part of their award-winning The Masters of Cinema Series on 24 February 2014.
SYNOPSIS:
Sidney Lumet’s 1973 crime drama Serpico remains one of the most influential cop movies – alongside Al Pacino’s nuanced performance in a disturbing portrait of corruption and morality in the city that never sleeps.
A plainclothes street patrolman, Frank Serpico (Pacino) might be the best cop in New York, but his unwillingness to play dirty and give into police corruption of drugs, violence, and kickbacks his colleagues indulge in every day. When he decides to expose those around him, Frank finds himself a target, not just to the city’s criminals, but his own peers.
Shot on location and based on real events, Serpico captures the grit of New York in a way no film has rivalled, not just for its toned down realism, but also the bleakness Lumet portrays within his hometown city with brutal cynicism with frank immediacy. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Serpico for the first time on Blu-Ray in the UK
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LOVE this film. And here’s some interesting trivia… about 30 years ago I met a bloke at a party near where I live (a place called Corwen) in North wales, turned out he was frank Serpico. Seriously! (I didn’t believe him at first). He moved to wales. How weird is that?
It’s look like leon steelbook