The Super Cops *** (1974, Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier) – Classic Movie Review 10,020

Director Gordon Parks’s 1974 true story crime action thriller The Super Cops is a hard-hitting buddy-buddy cop movie with a good sense of pace, place and humour.

Ron Leibman and David Selby pack punch as the real-life crimebusters David Greenberg and Robert Hantz who, though they started as New York City traffic control rookies, were sent to Brooklyn and went after drug pushers, crooks and corrupt cops.

The real cops, Dave and Rob, called on the streets Batman and Robin, have bit parts as Detectives Basoff and Neel.

Lorenzo Semple Jr writes the screenplay from the book by L H Whittemore.

Also in the cast are Sheila Frazier, Pat Hingle, Dan Frazer, Joseph Sirola, Amy Freeman, Bernard Kates, Alex Colon, Charles Turner, Ralph Wilcox, Al Fann, David Greenberg, Robert Hantz, Norman Bush, Arthur French, Tamu Blackwell, Hector Troy, Ralph Strait, Joseph P McCartney, Albert Henderson and Barton Heyman.

Parks’s third film is the blaxploitation movie Shaft (1971). He directed only seven films.

RIP Ron Leibman, who died on 6 December 2019, aged 82.

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