Bibliograph

Shaft, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant, Roger Lewis production ; produced by Joel Freeman ; screenplay by Enest Tidyman and John D.F. Black ; directed by Gordon Parks

Type

Label

Shaft, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant, Roger Lewis production ; produced by Joel Freeman ; screenplay by Enest Tidyman and John D.F. Black ; directed by Gordon Parks

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rating: R

Main title

Shaft

Oclc number

11327873634

Responsibility statement

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant, Roger Lewis production ; produced by Joel Freeman ; screenplay by Enest Tidyman and John D.F. Black ; directed by Gordon Parks

Runtime

100

Series statement

Criterion collection

Summary

While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangsters, he finds himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating uptown vs. downtown turf war. A vivid time capsule of seventies Manhattan in all its gritty glory that has inspired sequels and multimedia reboots galore

Technique

live action

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