Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Shaft [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant-Roger Lewis production ; screenplay by Ernest Tidyman and John D.F. Black ; produced by Joel Freeman ; directed by Gordon Parks. Shaft's big score! / Metro-Goldwyin-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant-Roger Lewis production ; written by Ernest Tidyman ; produced by Roger Lewis and Ernest Tidyman ; directed by Gordon Parks. Shaft in Africa / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant-Roger Lewis production ; written by Stirling Silliphant ; produced by Roger Lewis ; directed by John Guillermin.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2006]

Description:

2 videodiscs (317 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Shaft: John Shaft, a private investigator, is hired by a Harlem crime boss to find his kidnapped daughter. During his investigation, Shaft uncovers a Mafia plot to take over a chunck of the Black underworld's uptown territory.

Shaft's big score!: Private eye John Shaft runs afoul of the underworld as he investigates a friends murder. This is the second film in the Shaft series.

Shaft in Africa: Detective John Shaft is persuaded by diplomats at the United Nations to track down a slave-trading operation. This is the third film in the Shaft series.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating; R.

Subjects:

Feature films.

Shaft, John (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

Detective and mystery films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

African American detectives -- New York (State) -- New York.

Film sequels.

Blaxploitation films.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama.

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