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Shaft

1971, 1h 40min

Action Thriller Crime

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

"Shaft" — action, thriller and crime movie produced in USA and released in 1971. It has a good rating on IMDb: 6.6 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 40min. "Shaft" is currently available for rent and to buy on Apple TV and Vudu. Click on a playlink to watch it now!

Country: United States

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Richard Roundtree,

Antonio Fargas,

Lawrence Pressman,

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Cool, black private eye John Shaft is hired by crime lord Bumpy Jonas to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter amid a dangerous rivalry between Black mobsters, Black nationalists, and the Italian mafia in New York.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Shaft include The Yakuza (1974), Black Gunn, The French Connection, Caliber 9, Stone, The Killer Elite.

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Shaft was released in theaters on July 2, 1971.