"The mob wanted Harlem back. They got Shaft...up to here."
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Richard Roundtree
John Shaft
Moses Gunn
Bumpy Jonas
Charles Cioffi
Vic Androzzi
Christopher St. John
Ben Buford
Gwenn Mitchell
Ellie Moore
Lawrence Pressman
Sergeant Tom Hannon
Victor Arnold
Charlie
Sherri Brewer
Marcy
Rex Robbins
Rollie
Camille Yarbrough
Dina Greene
Margaret Warncke
Linda
Joseph Leon
Byron Leibowitz
Arnold Johnson
Cul
Dominic Barto
Patsy
George Strus
Carmen
Edmund Hashim
Lee
Drew Bundini Brown
Willy
Tommy Lane
Leroy
Explore all films in this franchise in chronological order
Shaft • 1971 • Theatrical Trailer
Black Caesar
Foxy Brown
Across 110th Street
Paid in Full
Dead Man Down
Coffy
Gloria
Switchblade Sisters
Al Capone
Gangster Squad