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.
The Super Cops
A still image from The Super Cops showing Greenberg and Hantz in front of a Batman & Robin tag
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography. He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s, for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score and the semiautobiographical The Learning Tree.
Parks at the Civil Rights March on Washington, 1963
American Gothic, Washington, D.C. – a well-known photograph by Parks
A later photograph in the FSA series, by Parks, shows Ella Watson and her family.
Gordon Parks next to his piano, photograph by David Finn (late 1980s)
