Shaft (1971)
1971, 97 minutes, Rated M
"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.
- Director:
- John Singleton [10],
- Starring:
- Richard Rountree [20], Moses Gunn [7],
- Screen Formats:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Subtitles:
- Arabic , Bulgarian , Dutch , English , French , German , Italian , Portuguese , Romanian
- Language and Sound:
- English Mono
French Mono
Italian Mono
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