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Post by ScreenHead One on Jan 17, 2023 12:06:40 GMT -6
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Post by ScreenHead One on Jan 17, 2023 12:34:26 GMT -6
*Shaft (1971)
6.60 Rating 100 min John Shaft is a black private detective working in downtown New York City. He learns the hard way that Bumpy Jonas, a Harlem-based black mobster, wants to hire him to locate his daughter, Marcy Jonas, who Bumpy claims was kidnapped, there being no ransom note. All Bumpy can tell Shaft is that he believes that a mid-level Harlem black thug named Ben Buford, who is known now to be laying low, is either behind or knows something about the kidnapping. Because of his criminal history, Bumpy can't go to the police for their help, and he chose Shaft because he has his hands on the pulse of both the black and white communities in inner city New York. Despite not liking the way that Bumpy contacted him, Shaft agrees to the job in part because he can see that Bumpy has true concern for his daughter, a probable innocent in the matter. Even before having the conversation with Bumpy, Shaft is contacted by NYPD Lieutenant Vic Androzzi - the two having a love/hate relationship with each other - who wants Shaft to tell him what he knows about what's going on with Bumpy if only to prepare for any potential bloodshed that might be going down down the pipe. As Shaft knows Vic isn't being totally forthright with him, he has to decide how much of what he knows he will divulge to Vic as the case progresses. As Shaft progresses with the case, following the only leads of Marcy's last known whereabouts and trails to Buford's current hiding place, Shaft will learn why Bumpy believes Buford is involved. Ultimately, Shaft gets caught in the middle in a war of Bumpy's mob gang and the Italian mafia. To keep himself safe while locating and rescuing Marcy, Shaft knows he needs more muscle, amassing such a gang to do what would be less than legal actions may be problematic.
Country: United States Genre: Thriller, Action, Crime Release: 1971 Director: Gordon Parks Production: Metro Goldwyn Mayer MGM Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Donny Burks, Ron Tannas, Arnold Johnson, Victor Arnold,
Betty Bresler, Eddie Barth, Clee Burtonya, Christopher St. John, Edmund Hashim, Ricardo Brown
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Post by ScreenHead One on Jan 17, 2023 12:40:12 GMT -6
*Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
6.0 Rating 104 min When Shaft finds out that a dead friend ran a numbers racket out of his legitimate business and left $250,000 unaccounted for, he knows why he has suddenly found himself in the middle of a war between rival thugs. These goons are all trying to take over the territory of the dead man as well as get their hands on the missing 250 grand. Shaft has all he can handle trying to track down the money and, at the same time, keep his friend's sister from the clutches of the hoods.
Country: United States Genre: Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime Release: 1972 Director: Gordon Parks Production: Metro Goldwyn Mayer MGM Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Drew Bundini Brown, Don Blakely, Julius Harris, Joe Santos, Wally Taylor, Joseph Mascolo,
Kathy Imrie, Rosalind Miles, Angelo Gnazzo, Melvin Green Jr, Thomas Anderson, Evelyn Davis, Richard Pittman
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Post by ScreenHead One on Jan 17, 2023 12:43:47 GMT -6
*Shaft in Africa (1973)
5.90 Rating 112 min Private investigator John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring
where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.
Country: United States Genre: Drama, Adventure, Action, Crime Release: 1973 Director: John Guillermin Production: Metro Goldwyn Mayer MGM Cast: Richard Roundtree, Frank Mcrae, Frank Finlay, Jacques Marin, Thomas Baptiste, Nadim Sawalha, Aldo Sambrell, Marne Maitland, Glynn Edwards, Vonetta McGee, Jacques Herlin, Jho Jhenkins, Adolfo Lastretti, Willie Jonah, Cy Grant, Spyros Fokas, Nik Zaran, Neda Arneric, Debebe Eshetu, Zenebech Tadesse, Avelio Falana, James E Myers, Jon Chevron
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Post by ScreenHead One on Jan 17, 2023 12:48:31 GMT -6
*Shaft (2000)
6.0 Rating 99 min New York Police Detective John Shaft is the lead detective on a sensitive case, a young black man is severely beaten. The man's companions tell Shaft that their friend humiliated the one who was spouting racial slurs at him. Shaft confronts him and he says he's Walter Wade Jr. , the son of a wealthy man. Shaft finds that he has the ID of a woman who's a waitress at the bar where Wade and the guy who was attacked were. When Wade continues to hurl racist comments, Shaft smacks him. Shaft later learns because of his actions Wade was granted bail and fled. Two years later, Wade returns and Shaft arrests him. At his hearing when the judge grants him bail, that's when Shaft throws his badge at the judge. He then sets out to get Wade by finding the waitress. Wade in the meantime asks a drug dealer named Peoples Hernandez to find the waitress and make sure she doesn't talk.
Country: United States, Germany Genre: Thriller, Action, Crime Release: 2000 Director: John Singleton Cast: Samuel L Jackson, Christian Bale, Vanessa Williams, Richard Barboza, Preston Thomas, Tony Rhune, Pat Hingle,
Fidel Vicioso, John Elsen, John Wojda, Toni Collette, Marshall T. Broughton, Bonz Malone, Jeffrey Wright
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Post by ScreenHead One on Jan 17, 2023 12:52:40 GMT -6
*Shaft (2019)
6.40 Rating 111 min JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ's youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem's heroin-infested underbelly. And while JJ's own FBI analyst's badge may clash with his dad's trademark leather coat, there's no denying family. Besides, Shaft's got an agenda of his own, and a score to settle that's professional and personal.
Country: United States Genre: Comedy, Action, Crime Release: 2019 Director: Tim Story Production: Netflix, Davis Entertainment, Khalabo Ink Society Cast: Samuel L Jackson, Richard Roundtree, Titus Welliver, Regina Hall, Method Man, Jessie T Usher, Robbie Jones, Isaach De Bankolé, Alexandra Shipp, Avan Jogia, Leland L Jones, Matt Lauria, Sylvia Jefferies, Luna Lauren Velez, Tashiana Washington, Ian Casselberry, Philip Fornah, Jalyn Hall, Mike Dunston, Jordan Preston Carter, Amato DApolito, Chivonne Michelle, Ryan King Scales, Kenny Barr, Aaron Dominguez, Almeera Jiwa, Whit Coleman, Laticia Lee, Tywayne Wheatt, Nyah Marie Johnson
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