Shaft (1971)

6.0

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6.6

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8.8

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6.8

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6.6

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6.8

User Score by
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Release Date

July 2, 1971

Director

Gordon Parks

Writers

Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black (in alphabetical order)

Producers

Joel Freeman, Roger H. Lewis (in alphabetical order)

Genres

Action, Crime, Thriller

Synopsis

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

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