Shaft (Blu-ray)
'Hotter than Bond. Cooler than Bullitt,movie posters proclaimed. John Shaft was indeed a shut-your-mouth detective to reckon with, a fact emphasized from the film's start by Isaac Hayes Academy Award-winning Best Original Song and Oscar-nominated score. Richard Roundtree plays the smart, tough confident lead, a private investigator whose hunt for a kidnapped woman puts him in the middle of feuding syndicates. Gordon Parks directs from a screenplay that Ernest Tidyman (that same year's Oscar winner for 'The French Connection') co-scripted from his own novel. John Shaft is an icon of change from an era of change. Today, Shaft still tells it like it is.
Year: 1971
Genre: Cult Films / After Dark, Blaxploitation, Best of the 1970s, Movies (1001 You Must See Before You Die), Blu-ray Discs
Country: USA
Director: Gordon Parks
Starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
Duration: 97 Minutes
Rating: M - Contains violence and sex scenes.
6.6/10
Location in store: Cult
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