Shaft - the CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Zavvi The Home of Pop CultureWhile the Black Power movement was reshaping America
• Trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster
• Which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft (Richard Roundtree
• In a career-defining role)
• A streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers
• After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss (Moses Gunn) from Italian gangsters
• He finds himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating uptown vs
• Downtown turf war
• A vivid time capsule of seventies Manhattan in all its gritty glory that has inspired sequels and multimedia reboots galore
• The original Shaft is studded with indelible elements—from Roundtree’s sleek leather fashions to the iconic funk and soul score by Isaac Hayes