Story Line
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
“The mob wanted Harlem back. They got Shaft...up to here.”
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
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Rating
6.4/ 10
Release Date
1971-06-23
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
ActionCrimeThriller
Part of the Series
Shaft Collection
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User Reviews (2)
JPV852
7/10
•6/10/2022Richard 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...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•9/1/2025Richard 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 ...