Shaft (1971)

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6.8	Rating (223 ratings)
6.6	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Gordon Parks

Starring (View all)

Richard Roundtree
John Shaft

Moses Gunn
Bumpy Jonas

Charles Cioffi
Lt. Vic Androzzi

Gwenn Mitchell
Ellie Moore

Lawrence Pressman
Det. Tom Hannon

Victor Arnold
Charlie

Sherri Brewer
Marcy Jonas

Arnold Johnson
Cul

Written by

Ernest Tidyman
(screenplay) and

John D.F. Black
(screenplay)

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13 years, 7 months ago at Aug 19 21:12

Thumper

1 vote

The best of the so called "Blaxplotation" movies!

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10 years, 7 months ago at Aug 11 3:04

Monstermaster

1 vote

The original Shaft came out in the early to late 70's and starred Richard Roundtree. What many people don't know is that like James Bond, Shaft was based on a series of novels. The author in fact does say that the character of John Shaft, is an African American version of James Bond.

This movie had several sequels including a followup in 2000 starring Samuel L.Jackson, yes - Mace... read more

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1 year, 9 months ago at Jun 25 14:23

fernando

1 vote

(OK) A character born to be followed, hard detective with a slight just for colour, vindicative feeling, mixing with white policemen, racist maffiosos and Bumpy Jones a Harlem hoodlum looking for his captive daughter...

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Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

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" Date: 2/7/2021 Viewed: Blu-Ray Re-Watch Note: For Black History Month, I do plan on watching all the Shaft movies including the new movie that came out over a year ago. Also, this year is the 50th anniversary of the franchise. Shaft is still a great movie and it holds up very well in my opinion. John Shaft is a great iconic action hero from the 1970s and is probably the most famous Blaxploitation character ever. Richard Roundtree does an amazing job of playing an awesome action hero that is "