Shaft / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant-Roger Lewis production ; producer, Joel Freeman ; director, Gordon Parks ; screenplay, Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black.
Detective John Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the black underworld's uptown territory.
Uniform Title: | Shaft (Motion picture : 1971) |
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Language: | English French |
Language of the Original: |
English |
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Includes French dubbed version and subtitles in English or French ; Closed captioned. |
Published: |
Burbank, CA :
Warner Home Video,
2000.
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Series: | Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
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Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
Format: | Video DVD |
Summary: |
Detective John Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the black underworld's uptown territory. |
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Note: | Special features include: behind-the-scenes documentary, Soul in cinema: filming Shaft on location; 3 theatrical trailers. Based on the novel by Ernest Tidyman. Originally produced as motion picture in 1971. Videorecording. |
Call Number: | AF6 D0005546 VideoDVD |
Audience: |
Rated R. |
Awards: | Academy Award, 1971: Best Original Song: Isaac Hayes. |
ISBN: | 0790743752 9780790743752 |
Credits: | Music, Isaac Hayes ; director of photography, Urs Furrer ; film editor, Hugh A. Robertson. |
System Details: | DVD; Dolby digital mono.; standard and widescreen formats. |
Cast: |
Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn. |