Movie
Shaft
Overview
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Details
- Release date
- 1971-06-23
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller, Drama, Action
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Shaft Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Richard Roundtree as John Shaft
- Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas
- Charles Cioffi as Vic Androzzi
- Christopher St. John as Ben Buford
- Gwenn Mitchell as Ellie Moore
- Lawrence Pressman as Sergeant Tom Hannon
- Victor Arnold as Charlie
- Sherri Brewer as Marcy
- Rex Robbins as Rollie
- Camille Yarbrough as Dina Greene
- Margaret Warncke as Linda
- Joseph Leon as Byron Leibowitz
Crew
- Gordon Parks - Director
- Ernest Tidyman - Screenplay
- John D.F. Black - Screenplay
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