Less kitschy than the usual Blaxploitation film, this police procedural features two outstanding performances from Yaphet Kotto and Anthony Quinn. Maybe it is because the rest of the film is so by the numbers (actual line of dialogue: “My way gets results!!”) that their layered performances really stand out. Worth seeing just for that and, of course, the 70s NYC location photography. Cheers to a setpiece on the still-under-construction Adam Clayton Powell State Building on 125th. Jeers to a climactic finish so blatently shot on the Lower East Side and not Lenox Ave as is repeated in the script. (You can’t see the Woolworth Building, US Federal Courthouse or World Trade Center from a roof on Lenox Ave.)