Shaft / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant-Roger Lewis production ; producer, Joel Freeman ; director, Gordon Parks ; screenplay, Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black.

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Shaft (Motion picture : 1971)
Main Author:	Hayes, Isaac (Composer)
Corporate Authors:	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Warner Home Video (Firm)
Other Authors:	Silliphant, Stirling, 1918-1996 (Producer) Lewis, Roger, 1918-1984 (Producer) Freeman, Joel (Producer) Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006 (Director) Tidyman, Ernest (writer.) Black, John D. F. (writer.) Roundtree, Richard, 1942-2023 (Actor) Gunn, Moses, 1929-1993 (Actor) Robertson, Hugh A. (Editor) Furrer, Urs (Cinematographer)
Language:	English French
Language of the Original:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Includes French dubbed version and subtitles in English or French ; Closed captioned.
Published:	Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2000.
Series:	Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:	Tidyman, Ernest > Film adaptations. Shaft, John > Drama. African American private investigators > Drama. Feature films. Blaxploitation films. Detective and mystery films. Film noir. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Film adaptations. Gangster films.
Genre:	Film adaptations. Drama. Feature films. Blaxploitation films. Detective and mystery films. Film noir. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Video DVD