Seprico
Sidney Lumet
1974

The movie starts with a police office names Frank Seprico who was shot in the face and we being taken to the hospital in the back of a police car. Immediately you get the sense that this is a police office who is important for one reason or another. Within a few scenes, the question of whether or not another police officer shot him is asked. At this time, I began to wonder who exactly Seprico was. Was he a dirty cop or someone who turned on other cops. We then cut to his Graduation from the police academy and his first assignment where he is partnered with a cop who willingly admitted that he accepted free food and looked the other way for minor infractions such as double parking. This scene becomes important as we begin to realize that, even though this I minor, there is a level of acceptable corruption within the New Your City police force and the Frank was not a willing participant in it at all. The next time we see Frank, he is responding to a possible rape call which he and his partner break-up and arrest one of the suspects. The lead detective, I assume, later beats the suspect and Seprico seems reluctant to want to participate in. Once the suspect is being taken to prison Seprico talks him into giving up the names of the other two assailants, Frank calls for assistance, receives none and makes the arrests himself. Once he gets the suspects back to the police station, he is bullied by the detectives to give the credit for the arrest. He relinquishes the arrest but here you can see that he is interested in getting promoted fast.

We now cut to a few different scenes involving hes love life, family and living arrangements that, in my opinion, took away from the story a bit. Especially the scene where he is with the dancer at a night club and wanting people to call him Paco. The part about another name wasn't really