Movie
1974
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.
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Today we see that US television holds an actual monopoly on the adaptations of true stories. But a quarter of a century ago, this wasn’t the case. In the golden age of 1970s Hollywood, directors were often allowed to seek inspiration for their films in current and sometimes very recent events. One such film was *Serpico*, Sidney Lumet’s account of the real-life New York policeman who fought the police establishment…More
