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Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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25/06/1971
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Richard Roundtree
John Shaft
Moses Gunn
Bumpy Jonas
Charles Cioffi
Vic Androzzi
Christopher St. John
Ben Buford
Gwenn Mitchell
Ellie Moore
Lawrence Pressman
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Victor Arnold
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Sherri Brewer
Marcy
Rex Robbins
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Camille Yarbrough
Dina Greene
Margaret Warncke
Linda
Joseph Leon
Byron Leibowitz
Arnold Johnson
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Dominic Barto
Patsy
George Strus
Carmen
Edmund Hashim
Lee
Drew Bundini Brown
Willy
Tommy Lane
Leroy
Al Kirk
Sims
Shimen Ruskin
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Antonio Fargas
Bunky
Gertrude Jeannette
Old Lady
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Mal
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Remmy
Tony King
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Benjamin R. Rixson
Bey Newfield
Ricardo Brown
Tully
Alan Weeks
Gus
Glenn Johnson
Char
Dennis Tate
Dotts
Adam Wade
Brother #1
James Hainesworth
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Clee Burtonya
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Ed Bernard
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Eddie Barth
Tony
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Robin Nolan
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Ron Tannas
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Betty Bresler
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Richard Roundtree was great and Shaft as a character was absolutely amazing, everything else from the plot which was thin and performances by the supporting cast was a bit iffy. The pacing was also pretty slow and despite only being 100 minutes, felt a bit longer. Still, a good opening into the franchise. **3.5/5**
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Richard Rowntree exudes loads of charisma here as he takes on the role of the shrewd Harlem private investigator “Shaft” who finds himself embroiled in some fairly brutal New York politics. He’s drafted in by local gangster “Bumpy” (Moses Gunn) when this man’s daughter is kidnapped. He doesn’t know by whom or why - there are no ransom demands nor many breadcrumbs to follow, but there are plenty of suspects. Initially he suspects that it might be the “Black Power” movement but after some plausible, if double-edged, tip-offs begins to suspect that some other hustlers are planning on bumping off …
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