Shaft [Blu-ray] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant, Roger Lewis production ; produced by Joel Freeman ; screenplay by Enest Tidyman and John D.F. Black ; directed by Gordon Parks.
Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1971. Wide screen (1.85:1). Special features: Alternate uncompressed stereo soundtrack remastered with creative input from Isaac Hayes III; new documentary featuriung 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.
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
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1327873634
Locations:
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
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