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Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.


“The mob wanted Harlem back. They got Shaft...up to here.”
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

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
Shaft is a action, crime, thriller film released in 1971 exploring themes of daughter, new york city, police, ghetto, blaxploitation cinema, biting. Directed by Gordon Parks, it stars Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi. Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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