Shaft (1971) Trailer

Hotter than Bond. Cooler than Bullitt, movie posters proclaimed. John Shaft was indeed a shutyourmouth detective to reckon with, a fact emphasized from the film s start by Isaac Hayes Academy Awardwinning Best Original Song and Oscarnominated 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. Gordan Parks directs from a screenplay that Ernest Tidyman (that same year s Oscarwinner for T