
Shaft
The mob wanted Harlem back. They got Shaft...up to here.
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Trailers & More
About Shaft
- Directors
- Gordon Parks
- Cast
- Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller, Drama, Action
- Content rating
- R
- Original language
- English
- Production countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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