Shaft

Name: Shaft
Released: 1971-7-2
Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell

Shaft

R
1h 30m
1971

88%

age 16+

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The mob wants Harlem back. But they're gonna get Shaft. Richard Roundtree stars as New York City private detective John Shaft. He's cool, tough and won't back down to anybody. But when the New York Mafia wants to take over the Harlem drug trade, they kidnap local crime lord Bumpy Jonas' (Moses Gunn) daughter. Now in the middle of a war between mobsters that's ready to ignite a racial tinderbox, Jonas hires the one man tough enough to get his daughter back--John Shaft.

Director:

Gordon Parks

Producer:

Writer:

Cast:

Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman, Victor Arnold, Sherri Brewer, Rex Robbins

Special Features

Locked video

Soul in Cinema: Filming SHAFT on Location

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"Shaft" TV Episode - "The Killing"

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

88%

Critics Consensus: This is the man that would risk his neck for his brother, man. Can you dig it?

Reviews

Film Frenzy

Matt Brunson

One of the best of all blaxploitation flicks.

Violence, some sex, profanity in '70s classic.

If Shaft were indeed a hard-hitting, fast-paced, action-packed detective thriller, as it was meant...

If you're a fan of this sort of caper, worth owning.

There are a lot of movies from that era that do basically the same things... but not many of them...

June 25, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 16+

Common Sense Says

A guilty pleasure for adults and older teens.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this movie has incessant use of the word "f--k" and graphic violence, including self-inflicted ice-pick wounds and lots of punching and shooting. A character is blatantly racist and another is a drug dealer. Especially troubling is a conclusion that is surprisingly supportive of vigilante-style solutions, despite indications that even Shaft believes that this time the system will result in justice.