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Shaft (1971)
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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Genre:Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed By:Gordon Parks
Written By:Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black
In Theaters:7/2/1971
Box Office:$12,121,618
Runtime:100 minutes
Studio:Shaft Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
Gordon Parks
Director
Gordon Parks
Director
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
Victor Arnold
Charlie
Sherri Brewer
Marcy
Rex Robbins
Rollie
Camille Yarbrough
Dina Greene
Margaret Warncke
Linda
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