| Shaft (1971)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Richard Roundtree |
John Shaft
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| Moses Gunn |
Bumpy Jonas
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| Charles Cioffi |
Vic Androzzi
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| Christopher St. John |
Ben Buford
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| Gwenn Mitchell |
Ellie Moore
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| Lawrence Pressman |
Sergeant Tom Hannon
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| Victor Arnold |
Charlie
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| Sherri Brewer |
Marcy
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| Rex Robbins |
Rollie
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| Camille Yarbrough |
Dina Greene
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| Plot |
| Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) directed this 1971 detective story about John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), an African American private eye who has a rocky relationship with cops, an even rockier one with Harlem gangsters, and a healthy sex life. The script finds Shaft tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes. Parks seems fond of certain detective genre clichés (e.g., the hero walking into his low-rent office and finding a hood waiting to talk with him), but he and Roundtree make those moments their own. Shaft had a couple of sequels and a follow-up television series, but none had the impact this movie did. --Tom Keogh |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Action; Crime; Drama; Thriller |
| Director |
Gordon Parks |
| Producer |
Joel Freeman |
| Writer |
John D.F. Black; Ernest Tidyman |
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| Studio |
Warner Bros. |
| Country |
USA
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
R |
| Running Time |
100 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
7/2/1971 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
No |
| Index |
476 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
5/29/2005 |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)
 Standard 1.33:1 Color |
| Layers |
Dual Side, Single Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
012569505124 |
| Chapters |
20 |
| Release Date |
5/3/2005 |
| Subtitles |
English; French |
| Packaging |
Snap Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen |
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