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Author:

Shaft (Motion picture : 1971)

Title:

Shaft / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; a Stirling Silliphant, Roger Lewis production ; produced by Joel Freeman ; screenplay by Ernest Tidyman and John D.F. Black ; directed by Gordon Parks.

Edition:

Blu-ray edition.

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Shaft, John--(Fictitious character)--Drama.
African American private investigators--Drama.
Kidnapping--Drama.
Gangsters--Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Action and adventure films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Silliphant, Stirling, 1918-1996, film producer.
Lewis, Roger, 1918-1984, film producer.
Freeman, Joel, film producer.
Tidyman, Ernest, film producer. film producer.
Black, John D. F., screenwriter.
Parks, Gordon, 1934-1979, composer (expression) composer (expression)
Roundtree, Richard, 1942- actor.
Gunn, Moses, 1929-1993, actor.
Cioffi, Charles, 1935- actor.
St. John, Christopher, 1942- actor.
Mitchell, Gwenn, 1948- actor.
Hayes, Isaac, composer (expression)
Johnson, J. J., 1924-2001, composer (expression)
Furrer, Urs, director of photography.
Robertson, Hugh A., editor of moving image work.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, production company. production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1971. Based on the novel by Ernest Tidyman. Wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) Special features include: Alternate uncompressed stereo soundtrack remastered with creative input from Isaac Hayes III; Shaft's big score, the sequel to Shaft; new documentaryfeaturingg Rhea L. Combs, Racquel J. gates, Nelson George and Shana L. Redmond; Soul in Cinema: Filming "Shaft"; Archival interviews with Parks, Isaac Hayes and Richard Roundtree; new program on Hayes's score; new interview with Joseph G. Aulisi; new program on the Black detective featuring Scholar Kinohi Nishikawa and Walter Mosley; A Complicated Man: The "Shaft" legacy; essay by film scholar Amy Abugo Ongiri. Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell.

Summary:

While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangsters, he finds himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating uptown vs. downtown turf war. A vivid time capsule of seventies Manhattan in all its gritty glory that has inspired sequels and multimedia reboots galore.

Series:

Criterion collection.

ISBN:

1681439433
9781681439433

UPC:

715515272513

Locations:

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)