Title | Shaft |
Publication Type | Audiovisual (CD/DVD) |
Year of Publication | 1971 |
Author | Freeman, Joel |
Publisher | Warner Home Entertainment |
Publication Language | eng |
Copies at the Archive | 1 |
"Hotter than Bond. Cooler than Bullitt," movie posters proclaimed. John Shaft was indeed a shut-your-mouth detective to reckon with, a fact emphasized from the film's start by Issac Hayes' Academy Award-winning Best Original Song and Oscar- nominated score. 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. Gordon Parks directs from a screenplay that Ernest Tidyman co-scripted from his own novel. John Shaft is an icon of change from an era of change. Today, Shaft still tells it like it is.