shaft

SHAFT

I’m Talking About ‘Shaft.’
U.S., 1971
Directed by Gordon Parks
Starring Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn
Music by Isaac Hayes
100 min.

“Who’s the Black private dick that’s a Sex Machine to all the chicks?” Richard Roundtree is John Shaft, one cool dude in turtleneck and leather jacket, bopping down The Deuce to the beat of Isaac Hayes’ Oscar-winning theme song, and handling cop pal Charles Cioffi the bodies of half the drug dealers on the East Coast.


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