The film is set in harlem and takes its name from 110th street, the traditional dividing line between harlem and central park that functioned as an informal boundary of race and class in 1970s new york city. Cast in credits order complete, awaiting verification. Movies like across 110th street if you like across 110th street you are looking for bleak, cynical and realistic movies about with gangsters, neo noir, crime, crimes, interracial relations, violence spree and obsessive quest themes of action, crime and drama genre shot in usa. It was directed by barry shear and stars yaphet kotto, anthony quinn, anthony franciosa and paul benjamin. The police must find them before the sadistic mafia henchman nick dsalvio anthony franciosa reaches them first. The song has also appeared in the soundtracks for jackie brown and american gangster the. Anthony quinn, yaphet kotto, anthony franciosa, frank adu. Yet they are not officially considered part of a films score. Those portions of it which arent bloody violent are filled in by the squalid location sites in new. Scenes of kotto and quinn grappling over issues of racism and corruption in the police department are just as important to the film as the central story line of the mafia chasing the thieves. West 110th street and malcolm x boulevard, manhattan. Across 110th street internet movie firearms database. Pope yaphet kotto, who grills informer chink charles mcgregor, in across 110th. Slicker than a harlem shakedown, across 110th street hits hard cue with a jackedup, smackeddown.
Released april 30th, 2000, across 110th street stars anthony quinn, yaphet kotto, anthony franciosa, richard ward the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 42 min, and received a score of out of. Across 110th street is the title song for the crime drama film of the same name released in 1972. Across 110th street almost everyone finds themselves struggling against, and losing to, forces bigger than they are. I got one more thing id like to talk to yall about. Across 110th street is a single by bobby womack, from the soundtrack and film of the same name that starred anthony quinn and yaphet kotto. Crime, blaxploitation, thriller, police procedural.
Across 110th street 1972 movie clip you must be new around here airing. Short animated films based on actual donald trump audio clips, handdrawn by academy award nominee bill plympton. Anthony quinn, yaphet kotto, antonio fargas, gloria hendry. Dec 20, 1972 but across 110th street produced, written, and directed by whites really does exploit its situations and its actors and even its violence, in a desperate ripoff of the latest news about the. The street is known from the bobby womack song across 110th street and from the 1972 movie of the same title starring yaphet kotto and anthony quinn. Across 110th street is a 1972 american action crime film directed by barry shear and starring yaphet kotto, anthony quinn, anthony franciosa and paul. Directed by barry shear starring tony franciosa and anthony quinn.
Because of how the situation was for black people in america at that time, there were a lot of struggle songs around. Across 110th street pimps trying to catch a woman thats weak across 110th street pushers wont let the junkie go free across 110th street woman trying to catch a trick on the street, ooh, baby across 110th street you can find it all in the street. Across 110th street internet movie firearms database guns. A lot of the movie has been cut away from the cd i ordered. Across 110th street 72 isnt just one of the most infuriated entries into the blaxplo canon. Bobby womack across 110th street lyrics genius lyrics. Matelli anthony quinn, also the producer works through a sea of witnesses called in by his lesssenior supervisor lt.
Across 110th street is a 1972 american action crime film directed by barry shear and starring yaphet kotto, anthony quinn, anthony franciosa and paul benjamin. Racial violence is the theme of across 110th street the. Across 110th street is an american crime drama released in 1972. When three black criminals steal a huge sum of money.
Across 110th street by bobby womack by le0pard, september 23, 2016. A random reference to a movie leads one top find out its based on a book,and. Racial violence is the theme of across 110th street. Slicker than a harlem shakedown, across 110th street hits hard. Mobsters and crooked police anthony quinn, yaphet kotto hunt harlem hoods. Across 110th street 1972 bythebook africanamerican lieutenant william pope yaphet kotto has to work with crude, racist but streetwise italianamerican captain frank mattelli anthony quinn in the nypds 27th precinct. Bobby womack across 110th street lyrics metrolyrics. In the aftermath of a big gang shooting, grizzled nypd capt. Slicker than a harlem shakedown, across 110th street hits hard cue with a jackedup, smackeddown thrillride through the hellraisin hoods of harlem. A random reference to a movie leads one top find out its based on a book,and it seems to be the only book the author ever wrote so immediately its in my wheelhouse of. Three smalltime criminals are on the run with the money. But across 110th street produced, written, and directed by whites really does exploit its situations and its actors and even its violence, in a desperate ripoff of the latest news about the. Across 110th street is also notable because it allows drama to take precedence over the action instead of vice versa.
In this film, anthony quinn plays an onthetake new york cop who is deeply indebted to the local mafia. Watch the video for across 110th street from bobby womacks greatest hits for free, and. The film is set in harlem and takes its name from 110th street, the traditional dividing line between harlem and central park that functioned as an informal boundary of race. Feb, 2012 slicker than a harlem shakedown, across 110th street hits hard cue with a jackedup, smackeddown thrillride through the hellraisin hoods of harlem. Two new york city cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the mafia and start a gang war. With anthony quinn, yaphet kotto, anthony franciosa, frank adu. Watch the video for across 110th street from bobby womacks greatest hits for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Once you select rent youll have 14 days to start watching the movie and 48 hours to finish it.
Across 110th street anthony quinn yaphet kotto anthony franciosa 1972 mobsters and crooked police anthony quinn, yaphet kotto hunt three hoods who have robbed a mob operation in harlem. New york film locations from the movie across 110th street starring anthony quinn. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing across 110th street near you. Whether you regard across 110th street as a genuine blaxploitation movie or not i dont theres no denying its one of the toughest and most powerful crime.
Across 110th street 1972 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. More film noir than blaxploitation, this dark, uncompromising movie spins a grim tumble put fascinating, tale of crime and race from the early 70s. Across 110th street 2000 stream and watch online moviefone. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police. It may be one of the most incensed pop indictments of american society ever committed to film. This is the next entry in a series from early 2012 that looks at the use of needle dropped songs, many of them popular tunes, in movies. Mattelli are two new york city cops trying to break the case. Across 110th street is wellmade, realistic in presentation and effect with uniformly good portrayals from actors, but depressingly lacking in a sympathetic focal point for audiences to grasp. The song also was used later in the 1997 film jackie brown and the 2007 film american gangster. Across 110th street is a 1972 blaxploitation film starring anthony quinn as frank mattelli, a prejudiced police captain who is partnered with lt. Across 110th street by bobby womack by le0pard, september 23, 2016 this is the next entry in a series from early 2012 that looks at the use of needle dropped songs, many of them popular tunes, in movies. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies.
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