Shaft

Shaft

6.4IMDb Score
Released:1971-06-25
Genre:Crime, Thriller, Drama, Action
Duration:100 min
Country:United States of America
Director:Gordon Parks
Actors:Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell
Production:Shaft Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Overview:

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

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