The Super Cops is a 1974 action adventure film[1][2] directed by Gordon Parks and starring Ron Leibman and David Selby.

The film opens with archival footage from a press conference where NYPD officers Dave Greenberg and Robert Hantz are being commended by Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy for the sheer volume of drugs and weaponry that the two cops have removed from the streets.

After a credits sequence, the narrative begins at the New York City Police Academy, where Greenberg and Hantz graduate as probationary officers.

One day, Greenberg is standing on the street in plain clothes when an elderly man offers to sell him some "French films" (porn).

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.

They try to gather evidence about the attempted bribe, but the District Attorney's office ruins the bust by warning off the targets.

The officers are growing more isolated by their fellow cops, who either resent them for showing them up, or view them with suspicion as being either corrupt or part of Internal Affairs.

Greenberg and Hantz kill the brothers in self-defense, and they are taken off duty while Inspector Novick conducts an internal investigation.

The film ends with a re-enactment of the opening press conference, with Novick commending Greenberg and Hantz for their service.

A half-hour pilot for a proposed TV series based on the film, starring Steven Keats as Greenberg and Alan Feinstein as Hantz, aired in 1975 on CBS.

In a New York magazine profile, Greenberg makes a number of extraordinary claims about his life, such as being the only white member of the Amboy Dukes gang, being kicked out of three colleges despite having a 160 IQ, being the "heavyweight champion of the armed services" for three years during his time in the Navy, training with Sonny Liston, and being handpicked for President Kennedy's "Honor Guard" in Hyannis Port after the President and his wife saw Greenberg fight.

Armstrong said that the Greenberg and Hantz account was contrary to the evidence, and he disputed other parts of the book, claiming that the two repeatedly shook down, robbed and assaulted suspects.

In 2015, while serving as a Guest Programmer for Turner Classic Movies, Wright introduced the film with TCM host Robert Osborne.

He lifted the idea of an over-eager cop making busts at his new precinct before actually reporting for duty in Hot Fuzz.

The real Greenberg wears a Batman T-shirt at the opening press conference, and Ron Leibman last appears in the film in the same shirt.