Shaft
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Actor: Charles Cioffi, Dominic Barto, Drew Bundini Brown, Sherri Brewer, Victor Arnold (II)Brand: Warner Brothers
Primary Contributor: Moses Gunn
Primary Contributor: Richard Roundtree
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-06-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Shaft
Movie Review: The Original, & still the best
Summary: 5 Stars
What can I say about this movie that hasn't already been said & in a far better way than I could. I'll just say this: It's SHAFT, man, the Original, so BUY IT!
(& the ending's hilarious!)
Summary of Shaft
Richard roundtree scores as the tough private eye whose hunt for a missing woman puts him in the middle of a syndicate feud. Special features: behind-the-scenes documentary soul in cinema: filming shaft on location feature-length audio commentary by director gordon parks and much more. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/03/2005 Starring: Richard Roundtree Charles Cioffi Run time: 98 minutes Rating: R Director: Gordon ParksGordon 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 clich?s (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
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