Title:
Shaft / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant-Roger Lewis production ; producer, Joel Freeman ; director, Gordon Parks ; screenplay, Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black.
ISBN:
9780790743752
9780792167181
9780790743851
Uniform Title:
Shaft (Motion picture : 1971)
Edition:
Widescreen edition.
Publication Information:
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video : MGM, 2000.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Based on the novel by Ernest Tidyman.
Includes theatrical trailer and other special features.
Originally produced as motion picture in 1971.
DVD.
Awards Note:
Academy Award, 1972, Isaac Hayes for Best Original Song.
Summary:
Detective John Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the black underworld's uptown territory.
Personal Subject:
Language Note:
Dolby digital: English 5.1 surround, French Dolby surround.
Performer:
Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn.
Production Credits:
Music, Isaac Hayes ; director of photography, Urs Furrer ; film editor, Hugh A. Robertson.
OCLC Number:
ocm45548181
Availability:
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