Between the years 1972 and 1975, Al Pacino went on a run that could very easily be considered the best four-year run of any film actor’s career with just as many outstanding roles in unforgettable movies.
It started with The Godfather and ended with Dog Day Afternoon.
Nestled in between the two great Godfather films in 1973 is another terrific performance in Serpico.
It is the true story of Frank Serpico, a New York City cop who goes undercover and ends up exposing widespread police corruption going on throughout the city.
It’s a bit of an outlier within the four projects in that it’s the only one that is a true story where he plays a morally squared-away good guy and not in the role of either a criminal or the don of a mafia family.
It was a bit of a risk for Pacino who had obviously just smacked a grand slam…
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