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Shaft

6.4/ 10

TMDB Rating

405

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1971

Release Year

100 min

Runtime

Action
Crime
Thriller

Overview

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

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Keywords

daughter
new york city
police
ghetto
blaxploitation cinema
biting
aggressive
suspenseful
tense
assertive

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Reviews(2)

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JPV852

JPV852

June 10, 2022

7
7/10

Richard Roundtree was great and Shaft as a character was absolutely amazing, everything else from the plot which was thin and performances by the supporting cast was a bit iffy. The pacing was also pretty slow and despite only being 100 minutes, felt a bit longer. Still, a good opening into the fran

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

September 1, 2025

7
7/10

Richard Rowntree exudes loads of charisma here as he takes on the role of the shrewd Harlem private investigator “Shaft” who finds himself embroiled in some fairly brutal New York politics. He’s drafted in by local gangster “Bumpy” (Moses Gunn) when this man’s daughter is kidnapped. He doesn’t know

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