Across 110th Street

“If you steal $300,000 from the mob, It's not robbery. It's suicide.”

Lt. William Pope (Yaphet Kotto) wants the case solved on his own terms, before an older captain, Frank Mattelli (Anthony Quinn), can run it his way. Three small-time criminals have taken $300,000 from the Italian mob, leaving dead mafiosi and two dead policemen behind them in Harlem. Barry Shear sets the chase along 110th Street, the old line between Harlem and Central Park that split the city by race and class.