On Blu-ray the film shapes up well, with a credible story, good performances and evocative location filming in Harlem. Johnson, and the Quentin Tarantino- friendly title tune compossed by Johnson and Bobby Womack. It’s now better known for its great soundtrack score credited to J. From the beginning, it is a virtual blood bath.”īack in 1972 Across 110th Street was mostly known as a picture so unpleasant that it encouraged walkouts. “Across 110th Street is not for the squeamish. Crime not only doesn’t pay, it’s a one-way ticket to a horrible fate.
Every effort to break out leads to a brutal dead end. Harlem vice is sewn up by several ruthless criminal enterprises, a description that also applies to some of the police force. Across 110th Street is a crime tragedy about desperation in Harlem, with characters as doomed as the rebels in John Ford’s The Informer. But I was impressed by a non- blaxploitation crime picture that had a killer soundtrack and was in no way a comedy. The title tune for Shaft all but brought the house down, and the vulgar comedy and stick-it-to-the-man jokes of Coffin Ed and Gravedigger Jones were indeed liberating.īack at UCLA most of the blaxploition cycle slipped by I wasn’t interested in stories glorifying pimps and drug pushers. As I was one of the few white people in an auditorium of black airmen I got to see how welcome were movies starring black actors. That included titles like Shaft and Cotton Comes to Harlem, along with comedies like Watermelon Man. After the ratings system came in, our local theaters in San Bernardino skipped a lot of rougher films, but the theater on our Air Force base showed everything from the major studios. This reviewer witnessed personally some of the impact of what became known as ‘blaxploitation’ cinema, but in a roundabout way. Screenplay by Luther Davis from the novel Across 110th by Wally FerrisĮxecutive Producers Anthony Quinn, Barry Shear Johnson, performed by Bobby Womack and PeaceĪdditional songs composed and performed by Bobby Womack ‘Across 110th Street’ composed by Bobby Womack and J.J. Starring: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa, Paul Benjamin, Ed Bernard, Antonio Fargas, Richard Ward, Norma Donaldson, Gloria Hendry, Frank Macetta, Marlene Warfield, Burt Young.įilm Editors: Byron ‘Buzz’ Brandt, Carl Pingitore Street Date Ap/ Available from / AUD 34.95 Stars Anthony Quinn, Anthony Franciosa and Yaphet Kotto provide more acting fireworks, with solid assistance from Gloria Henry, Antonio Fargas and Marlene Warfield.ġ972 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 102 min. It’s neither a ‘stick it to whitey’ saga nor a plea for justice: it’s story 8 million and 1 in The Naked City.
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Barry Shear and a crack crew filmed in Harlem for this downbeat crime pic that could be called ‘Every Thief For Himself.’ Paul Benjamin just wants to score some mob money and leave the mean streets behind - but a single slipup brings the worst of the Mafia and the black mob down on his neck. Gritty inner city crime pix don’t get any rougher than this - I witnessed the walk-outs personally.
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