On this day in movie and book history - The Super Cops (1974)

The Super Cops

directed by Bob Rafelson,

written by Lorenzo Semple Jr.,

based on the book by L. H. Whittemore,

was released in the United States on March 20, 1974.

Music by Jerry Fielding.

Cast:

Ron Leibman, David Greenberg, David Selby, Robert Hantz, Sheila Frazier, Pat Hingle, Dan Frazer, Joseph Sirola, Arny Freeman, Bernard Kates, Alex Colon, Charles Turner, Ralph Wilcox, Al Fann, Albert Henderson.

Recommended reading:

The Super Cops:
The True Story of the Cops Called Batman and Robin

by L.H. Whittemore.

ASIN: B000GSLVF4

Published by Bantam Books.

Published 1973.

Description:

The year's smash bestseller about two kids from Brooklyn who teamed up to become the most outrageous most-wanted swashbucklers in the Wild East! They made a record number of arrests and got over 90% convictions, defying the hopelessly screwed-up bureaucracyall the way. If the police system drowned the best cops in the most paperwork, this cop combination learned how to swim against the tide. If the mob tried to hassle them, they hassled back with a vengence. A whole neighborhood turned out to watch them arrest a drug dealer who had sworn to kill them. Posing as addicts, they got caught inside a dealer's apartment and – with guns leveled at them – were ordered to mainline heroin on the spot. Stuck? You've got to be kidding! Much decorated, Greenberg and Hantz have been shot at not only by hoods but be the system which thinks they're too good to be true. Promoted to detective in their mid-twenties, they've survived more than thirty investigations by superiors, civil liberties groups, the FBI and the Knapp Commission on Police Corruption. They're no the New Centurions. They're not the Blue Knights. They are Greenberg and Hantz – two tough kids from Coney Island who have become a living legend. The Super Cops: The True Story of the Cops Called Batman and Robin.