Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks and starring Richard Roundtree. It is the first film in the Shaft franchise.
Plot[]
Harlem-based private investigator John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) is assigned to track down a drug kingpin's (Moses Gunn) missing daughter (Sherri Brewer).
Cast[]
- Richard Roundtree as John Shaft
- Moses Gunn as "Bumpy" Jonas
- Drew Bundini Brown as Willy
- Charles Cioffi as Lieutenant Vic Androzzi
- Christopher St. John as Ben Buford
- Gwenn Mitchell as Ellie Moore
- Lawrence Pressman as Tom Hannon
- Victor Arnold as Charlie
- Tony King as Davies
- Sherri Brewer as Marcy Jonas
- Rex Robbins as Rollie
- Camille Yarbrough as Dina Greene
- Margaret Warncke as Linda
- Joseph Leon as Byron Leibowitz
- Arnold Johnson as Cul
- Antonio Fargas as "Bunky"