SHAFT (WIDESCREEN/FULL SCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1971
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: 'Hotter than Bond. Cooler than Bullitt,' movie posters proclaimed. John Shaft was indeed a shut-your-mouth detective to reckon with, a fact emphasized from the film's start by Isaac Hayes' Academy Award®-winning Best Original Song and Oscar®-nominated score*.; ; Richard Roundtree plays the smart, tough, confident lead, a private investigator whose hunt for a kidnapped woman puts him in the middle of feuding syndicates. Gordon Parks directs from a screenplay that Ernest Tidyman (that same year's Oscar® winner† for The French Connection) co-scripted from his own novel. John Shaft is an icon of change from an era of change. Today, Shaft still tells it like it is.; ; *1971: Best Song/Original to the Picture (Theme from Shaft) and Original Dramatic Score; †1971: Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
• 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, Woni Spotts, Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black
• Director: Gordon Parks
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Shaft Productions, Warner Home Video, Turner Entertainment Company
• Media Format: Movie