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Cast & Crew

Gordon Parks
Director
Richard Roundtree
As John Shaft
Antonio Fargas
As Bunky
Lawrence Pressman
As Sergeant Tom Hannon
Moses Gunn
As Bumpy Jonas
Charles Cioffi
As Vic Androzzi
Dominic Barto
As Patsy
Tony King
As Davies

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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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You can stream Shaft on: Apple TV Amazon Store Fandango at Home

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Shaft include The Getaway, Coogan's Bluff, Caliber 9, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Dirty Harry, Hell Up In Harlem.

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Shaft was released in theaters on July 2, 1971.