Legacy
Serpico is hailed as a classic. Pacino's performance has come to be considered as one of his best. His role as Frank Serpico is ranked at #40 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains list. The film is also ranked at #84 on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers, a list of America's Most Inspiring Movies.
There was a 1976 television series of Serpico, starring David Birney, who also played the role in a TV movie made in the same year, called Serpico: The Deadly Game
The 1998 comedy-drama Rushmore includes a brief scene in which protagonist Max Fischer and other young high school students are staging a theatrical version of Serpico.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)