Neal McDonough ("Desperate Housewives") has also been cast in the project — written, directed and starring Burns — from Steven Spielberg's Amblin TV.
"Public Morals" is set in 1967 in New York City's Public Morals Division, where cops "walk the line between morality and criminality as the temptations that come from dealing with all kinds of vice can get the better of them."
Dennehy will play Joseph "Big Red" Patton, a mobster who controls Manhattan's West Side, and McDonough will play Rusty, his youngest son.
