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Title: Shaft Format: DVD Condition: New Number Of Discs: 1 Release Date: 03/05/2001 Genre: Action & Adventure Actors: Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree Director: Gordon Parks Audio Language: English Runtime: 1 hour and 36 minutes Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...) Studio: Warner Home Video Subtitle Language: de, en, fr, it, nl, pt, Arabic, Bulgarian, German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian Certificate: BBFC 15 Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION DVD Special Features:
Interactive Menus Scene Access Trailer Featurerette Languages in Mono: English, French, Italian Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Portuguese, German, Romanian, Bulgarian, English for the hearing impaired, Italian for the hearing impaired
This original and hippest version of Shaft cruised onto cinema screens in 1971. John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) is an African-American private eye who has a rocky relationship with cops, an even rockier one with Harlem gangsters, and a healthy sex life. The script finds Shaft tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes. Director Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) seems fond of certain detective genre cliché (e.g., the hero walking into his low-rent office and finding a hood waiting to talk with him), but he and Roundtree make those moments their own. Shaft produced a couple of sequels, a follow-up television series, and a remake starring Samuel L Jackson, but none had the impact this movie did. --Tom Keogh DVDs ARE REGION 2 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED
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