Sarge: The Badge or the Cross (1971)

8.0/10 • 100 min • Drama TV Movie

Overview

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."

Cast

George Kennedy

Ricardo Montalban

Nico Minardos

Diane Baker

Stewart Moss

Father Terrence

Larry Gates

Harold Sakata

Naomi Stevens

Henry Wilcoxon

Stanley Livingston

Dana Elcar

Father Frank Dinsmore

Ramon Bieri

Walter Brooke

Charles Tyner

David Huddleston

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