Across 110th Street

This time capsule frames the the end of an era that we can all look back to. One can also learn what it meant to be an oppressed black man, a junior mobster or a tired NYC detective in that... Full review

Paul Benjamin, Ed Bernard, and Antonio Fargas disguised as policemen raid a mob numbers bank and rip it off to the tune of $300,000.00. But the getaway is pretty bloody. Five gangsters and two real policemen wind up dead.The film... Full review

I saw Across 110th St. many years ago and to this day it's one of my favorite crime flicks of the 70s, right up there with The Godfather, Serpico, and Dirty Harry. If you're gonna make a movie about the... Full review

The significance of 110th Street in New York is that it is the line where Central Park ends and Harlem begins. This ultra-violent '70s cop thriller wastes no time in painting the streets of Harlem as a hard, gritty, unforgiving... Full review

The real crime involved in this movie is the bare bones dvd release.Though the print is great this movie really deserves a revival and a special edition....its begging to be re-discovered!!! This film would have to be one of the... Full review

Whether you regard 'Across 110th Street' as a genuine blaxploitation movie or not (I don't) there's no denying it's one of the toughest and most powerful crime movies of the early 1970s, easily as good as the better known 'Serpico'... Full review

Richard Ward as the proud Harlem gangleader and Paul Benjamin as Jim Harris the steel of a trio of smalltime thieves who get in over their heads are the stars of this movie which has gotten lumped into the blaxploitation... Full review

This very good urban thriller was perhaps the best of the films made during the blaxploitation era. The story is grim, bleak and violent and the grit and grime of Harlem is present in every scene. The movie's theme is... Full review

Barry Shear directed and Luther Davis wrote (after a novel by Wally Ferrsi) Across 110th Street in 1972 and the film stars Anthony Quinn as Mattelli and Yaphet Kotto as Pope. Pope and Mattelli are two police detectives, Mattelli white... Full review

This movie sweats. Early on in the mostly pandering "blacksplotation" film cycle of the seventies, came this incredibly violent, hate filled drama of three small time crooks who stumble on a big score and their hopeless attempt to survive it.... Full review

Across 110th Street takes its subject very seriously; its DVD distributor hasnt honored that seriousness, but a few perceptive critics have. Across 110th Street has also profited, in a way, from the deceptive blaxploitation tag affixed to it, owing to the continued interest in the characteristic works of that early 70s trend. ... Full Review

Mit einer der unstrittig besten Soulnummern aller Zeiten, Bobby Womacks Across 110th Street (aus dem gleichnamigen Film von Barry Shear mit Anthony Quinn ), beginnt Jackie Brown . In der Creditssequenz sehen wir dazu eine in Wrde gealterte (im Film... ... Full Article