A 1973 film by Sidney Lumet about real-life NYPD detective Frank Serpico, who refused to take bribes and was shot in a drug raid after reporting fellow officers.
Established the honest cop surrounded by corruption as a specific urban American archetype — the model for Jim Gordon's position within Gotham's police department in Nolan's Batman trilogy.
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