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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.
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- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Gordon Parks
- 1971-07-02
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Richard Roundtree stars as New York City private detective John Shaft. He's cool, tough and won't back down to anybody. But when the New York Mafia wants to take over the Harlem drug trade, they...
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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.
Rated R. Gordon Parks's "Shaft" gave us the first really convincing black private eye. Movies about private detectives have always been among my favorites --t hey seem to be better than most other formula movies -- and John Shaft, as played by Richard Roundtree, belongs in the honorable tradition of Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Lew Archer, and ...
Jul 2, 2021 · Black characters didn't often get to win on screen. The movie came out on the eve of a recession and studios were looking to make fast and cheap hits, says film scholar and historian Raquel...
