When Harlem P.I. John Shaft first appeared on the movie scene he was a shut-your-mouth detective to reckon with, a fact underscored by Isaac Hayes' OscarĀ®-winning Best Original Song (1971). Richard Roundtree plays the hard-hitting, street-smart title role in these signature "blaxploitation films, hunting for a kidnap victim in Shaft, seeking a friend's murderer in Shaft's Big
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Richard Roundtree has streetwise charm as "the black private dick who's a sex machine with all the chicks" in an action-packed blaxploitation triple bill. Hired to find a Harlem gangster's kidnapped daughter, "Shaft" (1971) must save her before a citywide gang war erupts. Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi co-star. A friend's murder leads Roundtree into a bloody mob feud in "Shaft's Big Score" (1972), with Gunn and Julius Harris. And Roundtree goes undercover in the "mother country" to bring down a modern-day slave ring, in "Shaft in Africa" (1973). Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee co-star. 5 1/4 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono.
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Shaft Collection (Shaft / Shaft's Big Score / Shaft in Africa)
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