Shaft - Region 1 DVD

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Directed by :

Gordon Parks

Starring :

Richard Roundtree

Moses Gunn

Charles Cioffi

Gwenn Mitchell

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Description: Amazon.com essential video Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) directed this 1971 detective story about John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), an African American private eye who has a rocky relationship with cops, an even rockier one with Harlem gangsters, and a healthy sex life. The script finds Shaft tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes. Parks seems fond of certain detective genre clichés (e.g., the hero walking into his low-rent office and finding a hood waiting to ... (more)

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Release date: 6 June 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780790743752 UPC: 012569505124

Tags: Action (2), Detective (2), Action/adventure (2), Essential Cinema (2), AFI Top 100 Movie Songs (2), Kidnapping And Missing Persons (2), Warner Theatrical (2), Recommended (1), Blaxploitation (1), Warner Store (1), Urban Action (1), (1), Urban Action Warner Store (1)

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