The Super Cops/Fun Facts

• In early 2011 film director Edgar Wright requested that the film be made available via DVD on demand from the Warner Archive who obliged accordingly.

• Screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr., who wrote this filmed adaptation of the "Super Cops" book by L.H. Whittemore, where the two central characters are nick-named Batman and Robin, actually wrote the original Batman TV pilot episode Batman: The Movie (1966), and was also a script consultant to the Batman (1966) television series.

• The two real-life policemen, David Greenberg and Robert Hantz, upon whose exploits this film is based, appear in bit parts as detectives and in news footage.

• The nick-names of David Greenberg (Ron Leibman) and Robert Hantz (David Selby) were "Batman" and "Robin" as well as collectively "The Super Cops".

• Red Circle Comics, the Archie Comics superhero imprint, published an issue of a "Super Cops" comic-book in July 1974 in the same year that this movie first debuted.

• Publicity for this picture declared that real-life policemen David Greenberg and Robert Hantz had a 97% conviction rate and became legends in New York City where they received every possible commendation citation possible.

• Director Gordon Parks cut short his honeymoon to his third wife Genevieve Young so he could move into working on this picture.

• The real-life super cops of David Greenberg and Robert Hantz, of whom this movie is based, made 660 arrests in four years in the crime-plagued Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York City.

• Debut film of actor Pat Corley.

• One of the film's taglines, "the true story of the two cops called Batman and Robin", was similar to the source book's subtitle, which was: "The True Story of the Cops called Batman and Robin".

• The New York papers did actually report the exploits of the Brooklyn "Super Cops" David Greenberg and Robert Hantz as "The Adventures of Batman and Robin".

• The film was made and released about a year after its best-seller source book "The Super Cops: The True Story of the Cops called Batman and Robin" by L.H. Whittemore had been first published in 1973.

• The picture was shot on location in Brooklyn, New York which was the actual place where policemen David Greenberg and Robert Hantz operated as the super cops.

• The film is notable for seeing the daring duo of the two "Super Cops" use ropes and grappling hooks to scale a building and leap onto criminal villains just like Batman and Robin would do hence their nick-names of Batman and Robin.

• Four Hollywood film studios bid for the film rights to the source 1973 best-seller "Super Cops" book by L.H. Whittemore with the winning studio being Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

• Cameo: David Greenberg: As Detective Basoff, Robert Hantz: As Detective Neel.