Prince of the City
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Short description
Prince of the City follows Daniel Ciello, a New York City detective who agrees to work with the Justice Department on an investigation into corruption inside the police force. He sets one condition: he will not inform on his close friends. As the inquiry moves forward, Ciello finds that the people running it have their own purposes and that he has become a means of bringing down colleagues rather than simply exposing wrongdoing. Treat Williams plays Ciello, with Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett, Kenny Marino and Carmine Caridi among the credited cast of forty-one.
Sidney Lumet directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Jay Presson Allen, and Burtt Harris produced. The film was released in August 1981 and runs 167 minutes. It is the fourteenth of the twenty-six features Lumet directed in chronological order, arriving between The Wiz and The Verdict. Made for about nine million dollars, it returned roughly eight million worldwide, so it did not recover its cost during its theatrical run.
Audience response has been steady over time: on IMDb it holds 7.4 out of 10 from around eleven thousand votes, and on TMDB 7 out of 10 from 189 votes. A critics' rating of 7.5 out of 10 from twenty-eight reviews places it slightly above both audience scores, indicating that reviewers have regarded it somewhat more favorably than general viewers have.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on the novel of the same name by Robert Daley (1978).
- Director Brian De Palma worked on the script for a year before being replaced by Sidney Lumet. De Palma himself had planned to collaborate with screenwriter David Rabe and actor Robert De Niro.
- The character of Daniel Ciello is based on real-life New York narcotics officer Robert Leuci, who exposed 52 corrupt detectives. After leaving the police force, Leuci wrote several provocative stories about policing.
- The lead actor, Treat Williams, spent a month with the narcotics department and lived with the real-life inspiration for his character, Robert Leuci, in preparation for filming.
- The film's 240-page script was written in 30 days. The film was shot in 130 different locations and consists of 126 dialogues.
- The film's budget was set at $10 million. However, director Sidney Lumet managed to shoot the film for less.
- The film features the song "Love Will Keep Us Together" performed by Captain & Tenille.
- Al Pacino was originally slated to play the lead role, but the actor declined, believing it was too similar to the role he had already played in Sidney Lumet’s “Serpico” (1973).
- Sidney Lumet agreed to direct with two conditions: an unknown actor in the lead role and a runtime of at least 3 hours. While the first requirement was met, the final version of the film is only 2 hours and 47 minutes long. Another reason for Lumet’s agreement was his belief that this film would reflect the lives of police officers more accurately than “Serpico”.
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