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   Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation crime action thriller film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black. It is an adaptation of Tidyman's novel of the same name and is the first entry in the Shaft film series.

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   Jul 2, 1971 · Shaft: Directed by Gordon Parks. With Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John. A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

   • 6.6/10 (21K)
   • Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

   • Director: Gordon Parks
   • Release Date: 1971-07-02

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   John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) is the ultimate in suave black detectives. He first finds himself up against Bumpy (Moses Gunn), the leader of the black crime mob, then against black...

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   • Director: Gordon Parks

   • Content Rating: R
   • Actors: Richard Roundtree

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6. www.imdb.com › title › tt0067741Shaft (1971) - Plot - IMDb

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   John Shaft is a Black private detective working in downtown New York City. He learns the hard way that Bumpy Jonas, a Harlem-based Black mobster, wants to hire him to locate his daughter, Marcy Jonas, whom Bumpy claims was kidnapped, there being no ransom note.

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   After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangsters, he finds himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating uptown vs. downtown turf war.

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   Jul 2, 2021 · Black characters didn't often get to win on screen. The movie came out on the eve of a recession and studios were looking to make fast and cheap hits, says film scholar and historian Raquel...

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   Is shaft a blaxploitation movie?

   • Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation crime action thriller film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black. It is an adaptation of Tidyman's novel of the same name and is the first entry in the Shaft film series.

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   Who is John Shaft based on?

   • It is an adaptation of Tidyman's novel of the same name and is the first entry in the Shaft film series. The plot revolves around a private detective named John Shaft who is hired by a Harlem mobster to rescue his daughter from the Italian mobsters who kidnapped her.

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   When was shaft filmed?

   • In fact, filming of Shaft began in January 1971, several months before the release of Van Peebles' film, with Roundtree already confirmed in the lead role. The story is set in the same month, as shown by a calendar on Shaft's office wall.

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   Who is John Shaft?

   • The plot revolves around a private detective named John Shaft who is hired by a Harlem mobster to rescue his daughter from the Italian mobsters who kidnapped her. The film stars Richard Roundtree as Shaft, alongside Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John and Lawrence Pressman .

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   Does John Shaft belong in a movie about private detectives?

   • Movies about private detectives have always been among my favorites --t hey seem to be better than most other formula movies -- and John Shaft, as played by Richard Roundtree, belongs in the honorable tradition of Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Lew Archer, and company. He belongs because, like them, he keeps no regular company.

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   Why did shaft stand out?

   • Ay the start of a decade filled with cheap movies aimed at getting the black audience a product aimed at them in particular. Many of these were poor but Shaft stood out because it could have been a film in it's own right. The story is a normal detective movie with a black twist and that helps because it's not forced at all.

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    Shaft. Gordon Parks's "Shaft" gave us the first really convincing black private eye. Movies about private detectives have always been among my favorites --t hey seem to be better than most other formula movies -- and John Shaft, as played by Richard Roundtree, belongs in the honorable tradition of Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Lew Archer, and ...