- HD 1080
- Runtime: 100m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Gordon Parks
- Stars: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell
- keywords: daughter, new york city, police, black people, ghetto, blaxploitation cinema, biting, aggressive, suspenseful, tense, assertive
- Production_studio: Shaft Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Slogan: The mob wanted Harlem back. They got Shaft...up to here.
- The Shaft is featured in the top rankings of 1971
- #23 in Top Action Movies of 1971
- #25 in Top Crime Movies of 1971
- #32 in Top Thriller Movies of 1971
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
