Rent Shaft (1971)
3.4 of 5 from 95 ratings
1h 37min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Hotter than Bond. Cooler than Bullitt, movie posters proclaimed. John Shaft was indeed a shut-your-mouth detective to reckon with, a fact emphasized from the film's start by Isaac Hayes Academy Award-winning Best Original Song and Oscar-nominated score. Richard Roundtree plays the smart, tough confident lead, a private investigator whose hunt for a kidnapped woman puts him in the middle of feuding syndicates. Gordon Parks directs from a screenplay that Ernest Tidyman co-scripted from his own novel. John Shaft is an icon of change from an era of change. Today, Shaft still tells it like it is.
- Actors:
- Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman, Victor Arnold, Sherri Brewer, Rex Robbins, Camille Yarbrough, Margaret Warncke, Joseph Leon, Arnold Johnson, Dominic Barto, George Strus, Edmund Hashim, Drew Bundini Brown, Tommy Lane, Al Kirk, Shimen Ruskin
- Directors:
- Gordon Parks
- Producers:
- Joel Freeman, Roger H. Lewis
- Writers:
- Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black
- Others:
- Isaac Hayes
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Action & Adventure, Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Denzel Washington, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Films of 1972, Top 10 Films Turned Into TV Series, Top Film and TV Detectives: Guide to Screen Sleuth, Top Films, What We Were Watching in 1971
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 27/07/2020
- Run Time:
- 100 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0, French Dolby Digital 1.0, German Dolby Digital 1.0, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- Castillian, English Hard of Hearing, French, German Hard of Hearing, Latin American Spanish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Behind the Scenes Documentary: Soul In Cinema: Filming Shaft On Location
- Shaft: The Killing (1973 TV Episode)
- Theatrical Trailers
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