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'Serpico Cop Off the Take Cornelia Sharpe are the girls) are destroyed by Serpico's rising inner rage, and one of the film's innumerable achievements is the unhackneyed' honesty with which the romances and the break-ups are handled. Lumet, always a notably sensitive collaborator with his actors, has here provided a whole gallery of performances, from vignettes to Pacino's tremendous characterization. Tony Roberts is the principal support, and he is excellent as a suave, politically savvy fellow cop whose connections break down, and again when he and Pacino confront them with the hard facts. Lewis J. Stadlcn is the aide 'SERPIGO' A Paramount release.

A Dine dc laurentils Film. Producer Martin Breo.man. -Director Sidney Lumet. Script Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from the book by Peter Maas. Photography Arthur J.

Ornitz. Editor Dede Allen. Music Mikis Thecdcrakis, arranger-conductor Bob James. Costumes Anna Hill Johnstone. Art direction Douglas Higgins.

Production design Charles Bailey. Sound John J. Fitzstephens, Edward Beyer, Robert Rei-tano, Richard P. Cirincione. Featuring Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Bift McGuire, Barbara Ecta-Young, Cornelia Sharpe, Tony Roberts, John Medici, Allan Rich, Norman Ornellas, Ed Grover, Al Henderson, Hank Garrett, Damien Leake, Joe Bova, Gene Gross, John Stewart, VVoodie King, James Tolkin, Ed Crowley, Bernard Barrow, Sal Carolio, Mildred Clinton, Nathan George, Gus Fleming, Richard Foronjy, Lewis J.

Slad-len, John McOuade, Ted Beniades, John Lehne, M. Emmet Walsh, George Ede, Charles White. Running time: 2 nr. 12 min. MPAA-rated: Restricted (those under 17 must be accompanied by parent or adult guardian).

with a remarkable economy of words. Two affairs (Barbara Eda-Young and home in the counterculture, not a plastic saint or a willing reformer. But he is also an honest cop who sees the graft-taking not simply as a moral outrage but rather more as a. clear and present danger to those involved and those whose trust violated, and a cancer which does not stop with turning a blind eye to the numbers or, the football pools. His portrait ranges from easy charm to bitter humor to tenderness to raging frustration.

It' is a complex and evolving and Pacino brings it off Continued from First Page up from the cobbler's bench and vho wants nothing more than to' be' an effective cop and earn a detective's god badge (when he got it, crippled in -a hospital bed, it was for- him tarnished with irony). From the start he is out of step with a system infused with cynicism when it is not corrupt (the beating of prisoners, the paper-chasing bureaucratic Pacino's artful pad is hot protective coloration. He is a swinger happily at jJDXJXJV MOVIES JJDTJUJ? MOVIES JJDTJTJI? MOVIES Los Angcfes Premiere! 1ND YEAR it mm Direct From Record-Breaking Engagements! LOS ANGELES IRnrmiii- fl ri CMOli -i jiff 1 1 i'v' i lJ sUfrino INGA YOUMG mi dolphk tuiKO tMGii 5Tirr ru. kxkhm "5.RP. rAwi im count Plus: Biiorrc New reeturetles Fabulous Luxurious tos anceies-pii.

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