Across 110th Street (1972)

• Director
  • Barry Shear
• Writers
  • Luther Davis(screenplay by)
  • Wally Ferris(from the novel "Across 110th" by)
• Stars
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Yaphet Kotto
  • Anthony Franciosa

  Across 110th Street is a violent urban thriller about a corrupt, older white cop (Anthony Quinn) and an honest, young African-American cop (Yaphet Kotto) chasing three robbers-cum-murderers who ran away with $300,000 that belonged to the Italian mob. The police must find them before the sadistic Mafia henchman Nick D'Salvio (Anthony Franciosa) reaches them first. The film has reached a cult status; the title song, performed by Bobby Womack, was later used in Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino's extended homage to the crime flicks of the 1970s.