Across 110th Street (1972)

Some smalltime criminals disguised as policemen barge into a room where some members of organized crime are  handling the earnings of the numbers game, kill everyone there and steal their money. Then they are chased by the mafia and by the police.

This is an interesting film, well filmed except possibly for the cinematography, which leaves something to be desired at some points. Most characters are strongly delineated, no matter how small their screen time, and that's the film's forte. It's also an entertaining film, with a fairly engaging plot and good action sequences. There is a mystery in its premise, though. I seem to be the only person who questions this at all. Before the robbery, character 'Harris' is a very poor criminal who has just been out of jail and, by his own words, has had a very hard time finding a job (we assume he doesn't have one). Yet, he owns a machine gun (and lots of ammunition too)! He uses it to perform the robbery, and also later in the film to defend himself from the police and from the people he robbed. The police knows he has a machine gun. I don't know whether the mafia knows it too. Anyway, no one else uses a machine gun in the movie. When they try to catch him, most (all?) of them use pistols. I just thought this was funny. A mystery, as I said.

Rating: 62