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Across 110th Street, 1972 (Sorry, couldn’t find a better poster)

Plot summary from imdb:

This is a violent urban thriller about a corrupt old white cop and an honest young black cop chasing three black 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 reaches them first.

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10 Dec 2010

Blaxploitation Friday: ‘Across 110th Street’

Author: Gangstarr Girl | Filed under: Blaxploitation Friday, TV/Film



1974

I decided to bring this series back. I’m starting over from the beginning.

Here’s the backstory: I transferred my blog from Blogspot to WordPress earlier this year and for some reason my blogger posts don’t want to budge automatically. What I mean by that is, on my WordPress backend, there’s a function that allows you to transfer blogs seamlessly but it’s not working for my blog. I can’t figure it out and neither can any of the tech savvy web designers that I’ve asked so the only other option is to transfer them manually. I featured about 80 movies so manual just isn’t going to happen. Besides, there are some things I’d do differently and I never get enough of all things Blaxploitation and neither can you ( I was surprised by how much love this series got) so here’s the post the started it all…

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3 Dec 2010

Blaxploitation Friday: ‘Claudine’

Author: Gangstarr Girl | Filed under: Blaxploitation Friday, Music, Pop Culture, TV/Film