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Shaft / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant-Roger Lewis production ; screenplay by Ernest Tidyman and John D.F. Black ; produced by Joel Freeman ; directed by Gordon Parks. Shaft's big score! / Metro-Goldwyin-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant-Roger Lewis production ; written by Ernest Tidyman ; produced by Roger Lewis and Ernest Tidyman ; directed by Gordon Parks. Shaft in Africa / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant-Roger Lewis production ; written by Stirling Silliphant ; produced by Roger Lewis ; directed by John Guillermin.
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- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Motion picture adaptation of work: Tidyman, Ernest. Shaft, author, screenwriter, film producer., producer.
- Standardized Title:
- Shaft (Motion picture : 1971)
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Tidyman, Ernest--Film adaptations.
- Tidyman, Ernest.
- Shaft, John (Fictitious character)--Drama.
- Shaft, John.
- Shaft, John (Fictitious character).
- African American private investigators--Drama.
- African American private investigators.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
- New York (State)--New York--Harlem.
- Genre:
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Detective and mystery films.
- Blaxploitation films.
- Mystery films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (317 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English or French dialogue with optional subtitles in English or French; closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1, full screen version; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Shaft: John Shaft, a private investigator, is hired by a Harlem crime boss to find his kidnapped daughter. During his investigation, Shaft uncovers a Mafia plot to take over a chunk of the Black underworld's uptown territory.
- Shaft's big score!: Private eye John Shaft runs afoul of the underworld as he investigates a friends murder. This is the second film in the Shaft series.
- Shaft in Africa: Detective John Shaft is persuaded by diplomats at the United Nations to track down a slave-trading operation. This is the third film in the Shaft series.
- Includes Shaft (1971; A crime boss hires private investigator Shaft to help find his daughter); Shaft's Big Score (1972; When a friend is murdered, Shaft hits the streets in search of the killer); and Shaft in Africa (1973; When young Africans are lured to Paris only to find themselves in the middle of a slave trade ring, Shaft goes undercover to end it once and for all).
- Contents:
- [disc 1]. Shaft (100 min.)
- [disc 1, reverse side]. Shaft's big score! (105 min.)
- Shaft in Africa (112 min.).
- Participant:
- Shaft: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Drew Bundini Brown.
- Shaft's big score!: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Joseph Mascolo, Kathy Imrie, Wally Taylor, Julius W. Harris, Drew Bundini Brown.
- Shaft in Africa: Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee, Neda Arneric.
- Credits:
- Shaft: Director of photography, Urs Furrer ; film editor, Hugh A. Robertson ; music, Isaac Hayes.
- Shaft's big score!: Director of photography, Urs Furrer ; film editor, Harry Howard ; music, Gordon Parks.
- Shaft in Africa: Director of photography, Marcel Grignon ; film editor, Max Benedict ; music, Johnny Pate.
- Notes:
- Shaft: Based on the novel by Ernest Tidyman; Shaft's big score! and Shaft in Africa based on characters created by Ernest Tidyman.
- "Triple feature"--Container.
- Originally produced as motion pictures in 1971, 1972, and 1973, respectively.
- Special features: cast & crew; "Soul in cinema : filming 'Shaft' on location"; awards; theatrical trailers.
- Contains:
- Shaft's big score! (Motion picture)
- Shaft in Africa (Motion picture)
- Shaft's big score!
- Shaft in Africa.
- ISBN:
- 1419823418
- 9781419823411
- OCLC:
- 144529488
- Publisher Number:
- 012569678408
- 67840 Warner Home Video
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