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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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