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Serpico, playing at the Harvard Sq. this week with The Friends of Eddie Coyle, is the best police movie to come out of American studios since the days of Cagney and Bogart. It has its requisite amount of action and violence, but it also has more than its share of intelligence. The most amazing thing about the movie is how much Al Pacino (who's very good in the title role) looks like the real Frank Serpico. Serpico flew in from Switzerland a few months ago to endorse Ramsey Clark's Senate bid in New York and had people wondering...
...read the transcripts; now see the movie. So goes the current parlor game, "Watergate, Soon to Be Made into a Major Motion Picture." Most casting choices tend to be inspired but impractical - President Nixon played by the shade of a Captain Queeg-ish Humphrey Bogart (they were all "dishloyal officersh"), or Jeb Magruder impersonated by the late Montgomery Clift. Properly, the ground rules should exclude all but those actors available for two months of work, plus a renewable option for the TV-series spinoff. Let those who are without guilt stone the first cast...
...Gould found his wavering faith in marriage renewed. Now he and Jennifer plan to wed in a month's time. That is, after quick divorces from their respective spouses. Elliott is inarticulate about what went wrong with his companion of five years and wife of six months, Jenny Bogart, with whom he has two children. Said Jennifer gamely: "A lot of people think Elliott is crazy. But I love...
...Maltese Falcon. John Huston's first, and arguably his best. 1940, with Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook, Jr. From the Dash Hammett novel...
Jezebel, with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, at 8 p.m.; and Conflict, with Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Green-street, at 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday...