Fresh
Excellent cast, headed by newcomer Richard Roundtree, may shock some audiences with heavy dose of candid dialog and situation.
A.D. Murphy, Variety
Shaft
The mob wanted Harlem back. They got Shaft...up to here.
1971 · 1h 40m · R
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Gordon Parks
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Shaft
Overview
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Director and cast
- Gordon Parks Director
- Richard Roundtree as John Shaft
- Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas
- Charles Cioffi as Vic Androzzi
- Christopher St. John as Ben Buford
- Gwenn Mitchell as Ellie Moore
- Lawrence Pressman as Sergeant Tom Hannon
- Victor Arnold as Charlie
- Sherri Brewer as Marcy
- Rex Robbins as Rollie
- Camille Yarbrough as Dina Greene
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Forty years of gumshoe noir collided with black power in this 1971 action classic, the most popular of the blaxploitation pictures.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
A hip, cool, entertaining thriller.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
Parks isn't especially good at action direction, but the heart of a private-eye movie is in the mood scenes, anyway, and he supplies a scene in a bar and another one with the Harlem rackets boss that are very nice.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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