Across 110th Street

Across 110th Street is a 1972 American crime drama film starring Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, and Anthony 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 surpassing the limitations of that genre.

The movie was filmed on location in Harlem, New York. The film is also notable as being the first feature film to use a selfblimped camera the Arriflex 35BL for sync sound the muchreduced size of the camera allowed the production to not only use more handheld shots and smaller locations than normal, but also record usable sound at the same time an endeavor not previously possible under those circumstances.The critically praised title song, written by Bobby Womack and J.J. Johnson, was a No.hit on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart in 1973, and was later featured in Quentin Tarantinos 1997 blaxploitation homage Jackie Brown. It is also heard in Ridley Scotts 2007 film American Gangster, and as a background song for the video game True Crime New York City. The title song was also used as the theme song to the television show Michigan Replay. All songs were written and performed by Bobby Womack the score was composed and conducted by J.J. Johnson ........

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