Shaft

1971 6.4 (376 votes) 1h 40m

Genres

Action Crime Thriller

Production Companies

Shaft Productions
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The mob wanted Harlem back. They got Shaft...up to here.

Overview

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Key Crew

Screenplay: Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black

Producer: Joel Freeman, Roger H. Lewis, David Golden

Director of Photography: Urs Furrer

Director: Gordon Parks

Top Cast

Richard Roundtree

John Shaft

Moses Gunn

Bumpy Jonas

Charles Cioffi

Vic Androzzi

Christopher St. John

Ben Buford

Gwenn Mitchell

Ellie Moore

Lawrence Pressman

Sergeant Tom Hannon

Victor Arnold

Charlie

Sherri Brewer

Marcy

Videos

Shaft • 1971 • Theatrical Trailer

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