Shaft

About Shaft

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Shaft is a 1971 crime thriller film directed by Gordon Parks. Released in June 1971, it runs 100 minutes.

The film is filed under daughter, tense, assertive, and biting.

Richard Roundtree takes the lead as John Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford. The screenplay is by Ernest Tidyman and John D.F. Black. It streams on Howdy Amazon Channel in the United States.

SuperFly, American Gangster, and Escape from New York make useful companions to Shaft, all filed under aggressive and police. TMDB voters put it at 6.4 out of 10 across 443 votes and it carries a R rating.