Shaft

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Main Details

  • Released on June 23, 1971 (Detroit, Michigan)
  • Color
  • Running Time: 100 Min.
  • Production Co: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Shaft Productions Ltd.
  • Distribution Co: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1971) (USA) (theatrical) | Inex Film (1971) (Yugoslavia) (theatrical) | MGM-EMI (1971) (UK) (theatrical) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (197?) (Germany) (theatrical)
  • Directed by Gordon Parks
  • Written by Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black
  • Starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
  • Music by Isaac Hayes
  • Produced by Joel Freeman, David Golden
  • Original Music by Isaac Hayes, J.J. Johnson
  • Cinematography by Urs Furrer
  • Film Editing by Hugh A. Robertson

Plot Summary

  • A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Taglines

  • The mob wanted Harlem back. They got shaft...up to here.
  • SHAFT's his name. SHAFT's his game.
  • Hotter than Bond, Cooler than Bullitt.
  • Shaft's his name. Shaft's his game.
  • Wanna see Shaft? Better ask yo' mamma. (Trailer)

The Tarantino Connection
In the Tarantinoverse of Django Unchained, Broomhilda Von Shaft and Django Freeman are ancestors of John Shaft.
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