Across 110th Street

Across 110th Street is a 1972 American crime-drama film, starring Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, and Tony Franciosa, and directed by Barry Shear. Commonly associated with the blaxploitation genre at the time, it has received considerable critical praise from writer Greil Marcus and others for being a film that surpassed the limitations of that genre. This film is set in Harlem, of which 110th Street is an informal boundary line. Kotto plays a by-th... more

Across 110th Street is a 1972 American crime-drama film, starring Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, and Tony Franciosa, and directed by Barry Shear. Commonly associated with the blaxploitation genre at the time, it has received considerable critical praise from writer Greil Marcus and others for being a film that surpassed the limitations of that genre. This film is set in Harlem, of which 110th Street is an informal boundary line. Kotto plays a by-the-book black police lieutenant who has to work with a crude, racist and streetwise Italian-American captain, played by Quinn. They are after three black robbers who slaughtered five men—three Blacks and two Italians—in a raid on a Mob-owned Harlem policy bank that netted $300,000. The getaway driver is played by Antonio Fargas. Franciosa plays a Mafia lieutenant who, with his henchmen, goes after the hoods. Paul Benjamin plays the troubled but good-hearted Jim Harris, which is the last of the surviving hoods; he makes his choice in the... less