Shaft / Movie [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Richard Roundtree Moses Gunn Charles Cioffi Christopher St. John Gwenn Mitchell
	Video by:	MGM (Video & DVD)
	Sales Rank:	356583

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Actor(s):
Richard Roundtree
Moses Gunn
Charles Cioffi
Christopher St. John
Gwenn Mitchell

Creators:
David Golden (Producer)
Ernest Tidyman (Producer)
Ernest Tidyman (Writer)
Joel Freeman (Producer)
Roger Lewis (Producer)
Stirling Silliphant (Producer)
John D.F. Black (Writer)

Director(s):
Gordon Parks

Recording label: MGM (Video & DVD)
EAN: 9786301977418
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 6301977416
Format: NTSC,
Release Date: 1994-06-22
Universal product code (UPC): 027616019134
Audience rating: R (Restricted)

Amazon.com essential video
Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) directed this 1971 detective story about John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), an African American private eye who has a rocky relationship with cops, an even rockier one with Harlem gangsters, and a healthy sex life. The script finds Shaft tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes. Parks seems fond of certain detective genre clichés (e.g., the hero walking into his low-rent office and finding a hood waiting to talk with him), but he and Roundtree make those moments their own. Shaft had a couple of sequels and a follow-up television series, but none had the impact this movie did. --Tom Keogh

Running time: 100 minutes