SHAFT (4KUHD) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1971
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
• Plot: While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, in a career-defining role), a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss (Moses Gunn) from Italian gangsters, he finds himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating uptown vs. downtown turf war. A vivid time capsule of seventies Manhattan in all its gritty glory that has inspired sequels and multimedia reboots galore, the original Shaft is studded with indelible elements—from Roundtree’s sleek leather fashions to the iconic funk and soul score by Isaac Hayes.
• Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman, Victor Arnold, Sherri Brewer, Rex Robbins, Camille Yarbrough, Margaret Warncke, Joseph Leon, Arnold Johnson, Dominic Barto, George Strus, Edmund Hashim, Drew Bundini Brown, Tommy Lane, Al Kirk, Shimen Ruskin, Antonio Fargas, Gertrude Jeannette, Lee Steele, Damu King, Donny Burks, Tony King, Benjamin R. Rixson, Ricardo Brown, Alan Weeks, Glenn Johnson, Dennis Tate, Adam Wade, James Hainesworth, Clee Burtonya, Ed Bernard, Eddie Barth, Joe Pronto, Robin Nolan, Ron Tannas, Betty Bresler, Gonzalo Madurga, Paul Nevens, Jon Richards, Gordon Parks, Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black, Joel Freeman, Urs Furrer, Hugh A. Robertson, Isaac Hayes
• Director: Gordon Parks
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: Stirling Silliphant - Roger Lewis Production, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, The Gordon Parks Foundation, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie