Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

100 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Feb. 22, 1971

After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."

Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

100 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Feb. 22, 1971

Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."
Producers Universal Television
Original title Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Directors Richard A. Colla
Writers Don Mankiewicz

Cast

George Kennedy

as Sarge Swanson

Ricardo Montalban

as Al Matteo

Nico Minardos

as Nico

Diane Baker

as Carol Swanson

Stewart Moss

as Father Terrence

Sallie Shockley

as Valerie

Larry Gates

as Arnie Bigelow

Harold Sakata

as Kenji Takichi

Naomi Stevens

as Mama Bain

Henry Wilcoxon

as Bishop Andrade

Stanley Livingston

as Charlie

Dana Elcar

as Father Frank Dinsmore

Ramon Bieri

as Chief Dewey

Walter Brooke

as Rector

Charles Tyner

as Hawley

David Huddleston

as Tyler