Shaft [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant-Roger Lewis production ; producer, Joel Freeman ; director, Gordon Parks ; screenplay, Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black.
Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn. Based on the novel by Ernest Tidyman. Originally produced as motion picture in 1971. Special features include: behind-the-scenes documentary, Soul in cinema: filming Shaft on location; 3 theatrical trailers.
Summary:
Detective John Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the black underworld's uptown territory.
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