Shaft
Starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn
Director: Gordon Parks
Hotter than Bond. Cooler than Bullitt. John Shaft was indeed a shut your mouth
detective to reckon with, a fact emphasized from the film's start by Isaac Hayes'
Academy Award winning Best Original Song and Oscar nominated score. Shaft was the
first with the most, widely cited as the first Blaxploitation movie. Richard Roundtree
plays the smart, tough, confident lead, a private investigator whose hunt for a
kidnapped woman puts him in the middle of feuding syndicates. Renowned photojournalist
Gordon Parks directs, working from a screenplay that Ernest Tidyman co-scripted from
his own novel.
Price: $14.99 [DVD]
