The Super Cops

The Super Cops is a 1974 film starring Ron Leibman and David Selby, directed by Gordon Parks. 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 the year after the successful cop movie Serpico also based on a true story.

After a credits sequence, the narrative begins at the New York City Police Academy, where Greenberg Leibman and Hantz Selby graduate as probationary officers. They are assigned to lowlevel work like clerical tasks and directing traffic, but they chafe against the insignificance of these tasks and frequently abandon them to follow the sound of gunfire. One day, Greenberg is standing on the street in plain clothes when an elderly man offers to sell him some French films porn. When he refuses, the old man attacks Greenberg, who arrests him. Greenberg gets in trouble for making an arrest while offduty.Greenberg and Hantz decide to keep making offduty collars. They go to Coney Island disguised as Texaco attendants. They make a drug bust under the boardwalk and bring their collars to the local precinct, where the supervising officer is astonished to learn that two offduty probationary cops confiscated so many illegal weapons and drugs. The pair continue to make busts around the city in their spare time. They stop a stolen car on Convent Avenue in Harlem, and at the local precinct, they bluff their way into being treated as senior officers from the SUB division, which is just the acronym for traffic enforcement. ........

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