Shaft

The Resource Shaft

Label

Shaft

Statement of responsibility

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant-Roger Lewis production ; producer, Joel Freeman ; director, Gordon Parks ; screenplay, Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black

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Summary

Detective John Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the black underworld's uptown territory

Awards note

Academy Award, 1971: Best Original Song: Isaac Hayes

Cataloging source

NPC

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music, Isaac Hayes ; director of photography, Urs Furrer ; film editor, Hugh A. Robertson

Language note

Includes French dubbed version and subtitles in English or French

PerformerNote

Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn

Runtime

100

Technique

live action

Context

Context of Shaft

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Shaft

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The work Shaft represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

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Shaft Resource Information The work Shaft represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

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Shaft

Resource Information

The work Shaft represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.