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About
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Theatrical
Jul 2, 1971
Box Office
$12.1M
Budget
$1.1M
Return
10.8x
DVD / Blu-ray
Jun 6, 2000
Theaters
5
Director
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
Shaft Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Quotes
See all →Confrontation Between Mafia Contact and John Shaft
Mafia contact
I'm looking for a nigger named John Shaft.
Shaft
Just found him, wop.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
A Conversation About Evening Plans
Lt. Androzzi
Where you going?
Shaft
To get laid — where the hell you going?
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Shaft Collection
The Shaft trilogy is composed of action-crime films centered on an African-American police detective named John Shaft, who over the course of the films have altercations with a variety of crime. The f...
Cast
Full credits →R
Richard Roundtree
John Shaft
M
Moses Gunn
Bumpy Jonas
C
Charles Cioffi
Vic Androzzi
C
Christopher St. John
Ben Buford
G
Gwenn Mitchell
Ellie Moore
L
Lawrence Pressman
Sergeant Tom Hannon
V
Victor Arnold
Charlie
S
Sherri Brewer
Marcy
R
Rex Robbins
Rollie
C
Camille Yarbrough
Dina Greene
J
Joseph Leon
Byron Leibowitz
A
Arnold Johnson
Cul
D
Dominic Barto
Patsy
E
Edmund Hashim
Lee
D
Drew Bundini Brown
Willy
T
Tommy Lane
Leroy
S
Shimen Ruskin
Dr. Sam
A
Antonio Fargas
Bunky
G
Gertrude Jeannette
Old Lady
L
Lee Steele
Blind Vendor
