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Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation crime action thriller film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black. It is an adaptation of Tidyman's novel of the same name and is the first entry in the Shaft film series.
Jul 2, 1971 · Shaft: Directed by Gordon Parks. With Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John. A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
- (21K)
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Gordon Parks
- 1971-07-02
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) is the ultimate in suave black detectives. He first finds himself up against Bumpy (Moses Gunn), the leader of the black crime mob, then against black nationals,...
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- Gordon Parks
- R
- Richard Roundtree
One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features; Shaft’s Big Score!, the 1972 follow-up to Shaft by director Gordon Parks; New documentary featuring curator Rhea L. Combs, film scholar Racquel J. Gates, filmmaker Nelson George, and music scholar Shana L. Redmond
- John Shaft
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
John Shaft is a Black private detective working in downtown New York City. He learns the hard way that Bumpy Jonas, a Harlem-based Black mobster, wants to hire him to locate his daughter, Marcy Jonas, whom Bumpy claims was kidnapped, there being no ransom note.
