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Shaft

Name: Shaft
Director: Gordon Parks
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama, Action
Released: 1971
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell

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

1971 · Directed by Gordon Parks · 100 min · Crime · Thriller · Drama · Action · 18 frames

Tagline

The mob wanted Harlem back. They got Shaft...up to here.

Crew

Screenplay: Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black
Cinematography: Urs Furrer
Edited by: Hugh A. Robertson
Music: J.J. Johnson, Isaac Hayes
Produced by: Joel Freeman, David Golden, Roger H. Lewis

Cast

Richard Roundtree as John Shaft
Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas
Charles Cioffi as Vic Androzzi
Christopher St. John as Ben Buford
Gwenn Mitchell as Ellie Moore
Lawrence Pressman as Sergeant Tom Hannon
Victor Arnold as Charlie
Sherri Brewer as Marcy
Rex Robbins as Rollie
Camille Yarbrough as Dina Greene

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: Shaft Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Budget: $1,125,000
Box office: $12,121,618
Themes: daughter, new york city, police, gangster, ghetto, blaxploitation cinema, biting, aggressive, suspenseful, tense

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