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Shaft (1971 film)
Shaft
is a 1971 American
blaxploitation
film directed by
Gordon Parks
, released by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
. An
action film
with elements of
film noir
,
Shaft
tells the story of a
private detective
,
John Shaft
, who travels through
Harlem
and to the
Italian mob
neighborhoods in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster. It stars
Richard Roundtree
as John Shaft,
Moses Gunn
as Bumpy Jonas,
Drew Bundini Brown
as Willy,
Charles Cioffi
as Lt. Vic Androzzi,
Christopher St. John
as Ben Buford, and Gwenn Mitchell and
Lawrence Pressman
in smaller roles. The movie was adapted by
Ernest Tidyman
and
John D. F. Black
from Tidyman's
1970 novel of the same name
.
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