
Shaft(1971)
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.


“Last time he was nice. This time he's ice!”
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.

Richard Roundtree
John Shaft

Moses Gunn
Bumpy Jonas

Drew Bundini Brown
Willy

Joseph Mascolo
Gus Mascola

Kathy Imrie
Rita

Wally Taylor
Johnny Kelly

Julius Harris
Capt. Bollin
Rosalind Miles
Arna Asby

Joe Santos
Pascal
Angelo Gnazzo
Al
Shaft's Big Score! is a action, crime, thriller film released in 1972 exploring themes of helicopter, bomb, gambling, cemetery, coffin, attempted murder. Directed by Gordon Parks, it stars Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Drew Bundini Brown. John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
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