Shaft

42nd Street. Summer stink. A wad of chewing gum stuck to the sidewalk. Shaft moves through sweltering New York: black leather, black thoughts. Hired to extract the daughter of a Harlem kingpin from the Mafia's pale hands. Gordon Parks reframes detective cinema through a funky lens.

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Shaft was released in 1971 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 100 minutes.