The Super Cops
The Super Cops is a 1974 action adventure film directed by Gordon Parks and starring Ron Leibman and David Selby. The film is based on the book The Super Cops: The True Story of the Cops Called Batman and Robin by L. H. Whittemore. The film was released a few months after the successful cop movie Serpico (also based on a true story).
Plot
The film opens with archival footage from a press conference where NYPD officers Dave Greenberg and Robert Hantz are being commended by Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy for the sheer volume of drugs and weaponry that the two cops have removed from the streets.
More details
| contentLocation | Brooklyn |
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| director | Gordon Parks |
| editor | Moe Howard |
| genre | action adventure drama thriller |
| keywords | archival footage bedford-stuyvesant coney island corrupt cop district attorney drug bust drug dealer elderly man engage greet harlem internal affairs isolated joke knapp commission making of meet morning new york city old man open patrick v. murphy police academy press conference stolen car texaco their way tip top track down warn |
| musicBy | Jerry Fielding |
| producer | William Belasco |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| theme | docudrama |