Shaft [Blu-ray] [1971]
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Description
Richard Roundtree cuts a startlingly new and powerful heroic figure as John Shaft, "the cat who won't cop out, when there's danger all about" in Gordon Parks' seminal action film, Shaft. John Shaft is a black private eye with a small office near Times Square. On his way there one day, he gets pumped for information by Lt. Victor Androzzi (Charles Cioffi), a friend of his on the police force, about something big going down in Harlem involving black crime kingpin Bumpy Jonas (Moses Gunn). Shaft can't help him and leaves, only to just miss being waylaid by two of Bumpy's strong-arm men at his office, one of whom ends up dead on the pavement eight floors or so below. Squeezed by the cops, who are holding a potential manslaughter arrest over his head, Shaft contacts Bumpy, who reveals that his teenage daughter, whom he's always kept away from his business, has been kidnapped. There's been no ransom demand and no clue as to who did it, and he wants Shaft to find the culprits, insisting that he start with a group of Harlem-based black militants led by Shaft's onetime friend Ben Buford (Christopher St. John). No sooner does he find Buford, holed up in a decaying part of Harlem, however, than his friend's comrades are mowed down by submachine gun fire, and Shaft and Buford barely escape. With Shaft angry and out for blood, everyone is forced to come clean -- Bumpy knows that it's the Mafia that kidnapped his daughter, as they want in on the Harlem drug trade that he controls; they're holding her somewhere else outside of Harlem, where his men are no good to him, which is why he wanted Shaft to hook up with Buford. Androzzi tells Shaft that a dozen Mob trigger men from out of town have been spotted in Greenwich Village. He doesn't know why they're there, but he does know that if fighting breaks out between Bumpy's men and the Mafia, it's going to look like a race war, and the whole city could erupt. Shaft doesn't like the way he's been manipulated, but he sees Androzzi's point -- he links the trigger men to the kidnapping and finds the girl, but loses her again, getting shot in the process. Even though he's wounded, Shaft heads for a final confrontation with the kidnappers, supported by Ben's friends in an armed assault on the building where they're holed up.~Bruce Eder
Features
Behind-the-Scenes Documentary: Soul In Cinema: Filming Shaft on location
Shaft: The Killing (1973 TV Episode)
3 Theatrical Trailers
Director
- Gordon Parks
Writers
- Ernest Tidyman
- John D.F. Black
Cast
- Richard RoundtreeShaft
- Moses GunnBumpy Jonas
- Gwen MitchellEllie
- Christopher St. JohnBen Buford
- Charles CioffiLieutenant Victor Androzzi
- Camille YarbroughDina Greene
- Lawrence PressmanSgt. Tom Hannon
- Dominic BartoPatsy
- Ed BernardPeerce
- Donny BurksRemmy
- Edmund HashimLee
- Tony KingDavies
- Al KirkSims
- Joseph LeonByron Leibowitz
- Robin NolanWaitress
- Shimen RuskinDr. Sam
- Lee SteeleBlind Vendor
- Dennis TateDotts
- Adam Wade
- Alan WeeksGus
- Eddie BarthTony
- Jon RichardsElevator Starter
- Antonio FargasBunky
- Tommy LaneLeroy
- Drew Bundi BrownWilly
- Margaret WarnckeLinda
- Rex RobbinsRollie
- Arnold JohnsonCul
- Damu KingMal
- Sherri BrewerMarcy
- Victor ArnoldCharlie
Crew
- David GoldenProducer
- Joel FreemanProducer
- Ernest TidymanBook Author
- Urs B. FurrerCinematographer
- Isaac HayesComposer (Music Score)
- Hugh A. RobertsonEditor
- Emanuel GerardArt Director
- Joseph G. AulisiCostume Designer
- Ted ZacharyFirst Assistant Director
- Martin BellMakeup
Details
- GenreAction and Adventure
- SubgenreDetective Film,Blaxploitation
- TitleShaft
- Countries ProducedUnited States
- Duration98 minutes
- Year of Release1971
- Product TagsBlu-ray
- FormatBlu-ray
- Program TypeMovie
- Sound FeaturesDolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel, monaural
- Screen FormatEnhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
- Aspect Ratio1.85:1
- LanguageEnglish, French, Spanish
- SubtitlesEnglish, French, Spanish
- StudioWarner Home Video
Other
- Product NameShaft [Blu-ray] [1971]
- UPC883929241828
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