Shaft
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.
- Budget
- $1,125,000
- Revenue
- $12,121,618
- Production
- Shaft Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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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
Rex Robbins
Rollie
Camille Yarbrough
Dina Greene
Joseph Leon
Byron Leibowitz
Arnold Johnson
Cul
Dominic Barto
Patsy
Edmund Hashim
Lee
Drew Bundini Brown
Willy
Tommy Lane
Leroy
Shimen Ruskin
Dr. Sam
Antonio Fargas
Bunky
Gertrude Jeannette
Old Lady
Damu King
Mal
Crew
- Director
- Gordon Parks
- Writers
- Ernest Tidyman,John D.F. Black
- Cinematography
- Urs Furrer
- Composer
- J.J. Johnson,Isaac Hayes
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JPV852
June 10, 2022
Richard Roundtree was great and Shaft as a character was absolutely amazing, everything else from the plot which was thin and performances by the supporting cast was a bit iffy. The pacing was also pretty slow and despite only being 100 minutes, felt a bit longer. Still, a good opening into the franchise. **3.5/5**
CinemaSerf
September 1, 2025
Richard Rowntree exudes loads of charisma here as he takes on the role of the shrewd Harlem private investigator “Shaft” who finds himself embroiled in some fairly brutal New York politics. He’s drafted in by local gangster “Bumpy” (Moses Gunn) when this man’s daughter is kidnapped. He doesn’t know by whom or why - there are no ransom demands nor many breadcrumbs to follow, but there are plenty of suspects. Initially he suspects that it might be the “Black Power” movement but after some plausibl…