Shaft

Based On the book by Ernest Tidyman

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 franchise. The plot revolves around a private detective named John Shaft who is hired by a Harlem mobster to rescue his daughter from the Italian mobsters who kidnapped her. The film stars Richard Roundtree as Shaft, alongside Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St.

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Release date:

1971

Director:

Gordon Parks

Cast:

Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Dominic Barto, Antonio Fargas

Genre:

Crime, Mystery, Action, Neo-noir, Blaxploitation

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1971 in adaptations