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Paeino's 'Serpico' Vivid Por irayal street --language and Its exceptional performances, is a movie that will retain its force" long after the events that inspired it have been forgotten. and the editing1 by Dede Allen is too fancy at1 But in its absence of stereotypes, its feel for the ugly beauty of New York, its appreciation of the -power of H-ti By JERRY OSTER "Serpico," a Paramount Pic-. tures. release in Panavision and Technicolor: Produced by Martin Breghian and" directed by Sidney- Ltrmet 1 rom; a screenplay by Waldo Salt jand Norman Wexler based on the book by Peter Maas. Presented at the Baronet and Forum Theaters.

Running time: 2 hours, '10 minutes: MPAA-rating: (Restricted under 17 not -ad-: mitted without accompanying parent or adult the cast Paramount houres Presents A Sagnanus Prooucuon ElizabethTaylor Ash Wednesday "Serpieo" is a triumph of intelligence, compassion and style. An uncommon movie about an uncommon man, it has the look of a documentary and the magnitude a tragedy. It is appropriate that a movie whose theme is honesty should have been so honestly made. Credit for the consistent excellence of "Serpico" is shared by producer Martin Bregman, who put together a talented but largely unfamiliar cast 'whose newness increases the feeling of realism; by director Sidney' Lun.et, whose quiet camera has Serpico Al Pacino Tony Roberts John Randolph Jack Ketioe Biff McGuire Bob Blair Sidney Green Tom Keougii McClain LOEWS STATE 2 ON THE CAST SIDE LOEWS CINE AVENUE AT Km St 427-1332 2. 4.

to BROAOMW AT Str Sr S0' Pi P3 a DC 10, VIS. 7:05. 10:40 ALLEN KLEIN presents Al Paclno THE GRANDE BOUFFE so much insight, and by AI a-cino, who became Frank Serpico, whose childhood dream was to be a policeman and whose adult nightmare was having become one. Pacino's performances leave English Sub-Titles An BbhcO film release written long ago. Serpico's.

confidant, Bob Blair (played by Tony Roberts and based on the real detective, David Durk), is an over-achiever who knows that the top is gained as easily ever the backs of crooked cops as of crooked crooks. In this environment, there can be no heroes. Frank Serpico did not become a deity, but an outcast (Or, as Lumct shows with a shot of Pacino, full-bearded, a ring in his ear, feeding a pet parrot, a sort of Robinson Crusoe). The music for by Mikis Theodorakis, is all wrong, NOW PLAYING AT A THEATRE NEAR YOU! such vivid impressions that it is a surprise to recall that is only his fourth film if. win BETHPAGE.

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AND THE BIROS AND THE BEADS' DE GIANT TRIPLE 1st RUN SHOW, WORLD PREMIERE give him a halo to go with his badge and gun, to make a "Mr. Smith Joins the Police Department." Th3 picture succeeds because the temptation was ignored. There is nothing noble about Pacino's Serpico: he elicits sympathy, because he is struggling against all odds to be himself; he is not altogether admirable because he has too incomplete a sense of why he does what he does. HE BECAME a cop out of a naive belief that a badge and uniform would give him access to "the mystery." him at the vibrant center of things. Having arrived there, he finds that feelings and values are different.

Although he is educated and tries to be cultured, Serpico is not smart enough to be an idealist, and certainly not smart enough to be a realist. He can understand neither the animosity of the cops he will not become one of, nor the necessity that he be a witness before grand juries and the Knapp Commission. His "why me?" is not very different from the other cops' "whv not me?" THE CROOKED cops are not evil men, only sordid players in a drama of corruption that was PICTS A WIDE ANB VARIED RANGE OF ACTIVITIES TO SUIT MOST SandersWABC-TVj Rene Bond is unquestionably the new queen oi erotica" SKIVIN -Dapper llUk RUSSELL when he is being funny he resembles Charlie Chaplin: his clothes seem too big all of a sudden and his feet are not where he expects them to be. In his moments of frustration, one can see him fight'ng the weight of his burden and when he is violent, he swells to murderous proportions. The real Frank Serpico, whose revelations about the nearly unimaginable extent of bribery and graT- in the New York City Police Department led to the creation of the Knapp Commission, was a recluse who bid his feeling? from his friends.

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