Buy tickets for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning!

Shaft (1971)

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 40m
  • 66

Find Movie Theaters & Showtimes

for
near
in
Hmm... we couldn't find any showtimes for this date and location.

Videos & Photos

Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Gordon Parks

Producer:

Joel Freeman

Writer:

Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black

Release Date:

Jul 2, 1971

Runtime:

1hr 40m

Synopsis

A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Cast

  • Richard Roundtree
  • Moses Gunn
  • Charles Cioffi
  • Christopher St. John
  • Gwenn Mitchell
  • Lawrence Pressman
  • Victor Arnold
  • Sherri Brewer
  • Rex Robbins
  • Camille Yarbrough

Atom User Reviews

No one has posted a user review yet.

Metacritic

66
metacritic
Based on 10 Critics
7.1

USER SCORE (17)

Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Reviews
63

Adapted by Ernest Tidyman from his novel, this suffers from some sluggish dialogue scenes, but the movie comes to vibrant life whenever director Gordon Parks hits the streets of New York.

View full review
Metacritic review by J.R. Jones
J.R. Jones
Chicago Reader
63

The nice thing about Shaft is that it savors the private-eye genre, and takes special delight in wringing new twists out of the traditional relationship between the private eye and the boys down at homicide.

View full review
Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
See All Critic Reviews on Metacritic.com