Shaft (1971)

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Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM)

Rating: R

Release Date: Jan 1, 1971

Running Time: 98 mins. (V)

Running Time: 100 mins. (POTY)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Gwen Mitchell, Christopher St John, Charles Cioffi, Lawrence Pressman, Drew Bundini Brown, Margaret Warncke, Sherry Brewer, Victor Arnold

director: Gordon Parks

Follows the investigations of legendary, black private detective--one baaaad muthuh--Shaft! Donned in a turtleneck and leather jacket, he's not only an undercover hero, Shaft's also a lean, mean, sex machine, for all to admire...

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Since ''The Brady Bunch,'' Donny and Marie and disco have escaped from the 1970s time capsule, it was inevitable that the decade's ultimate black hero blasted into the New Millennium.

Story

More a delayed sequel than a remake, this chapter of the Blaxploitation series begun back in 1971 introduces us to the original John Shaft's nephew (Samuel L. Jackson), a police detective with a fierce sense of justice. When a racist rich kid (''American Psycho's'' Christian Bale)…