TV Guide: Shaft

Video: Shaft - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:07:17 +0000

A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob in Shaft (1971), starring Richard Roundtree.

Video: Shaft Trailer

TV Land — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:52:13 +0000

Opened: 01/04/2002

Video: Shaft

Video Detective — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:15:40 +0000

This action drama puts a new spin on Shaft, one of the key blaxploitation films of the 1970s. John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson), the namesake nephew of the legendary private eye (Richard Roundtree), is a street-smart police detective who with his partner Carmen Velez (Vanessa L. Williams) has been assigned to a racially motivated murder case, in which a black college student was killed in front of a restaurant by Walter Williams Jr. (Christian Bale), the sociopathic son of a New York construction tycoon, who then fled the country rather than face prosecution. Diane Palmieri (Toni Collette), a waitress on a smoke break, saw the murder, but she doesn't want to talk to the police. Two years later, Walter is forced to return to New York, but without Diane's testimony, the city doesn't have much of a case. Soon, Shaft, Walter Junior, and Walter Senior's goons are all looking for Diane, with Junior enlisting the help of Peoples Hernandez (Jeffrey Wright), a small-time drug dealer who will do anything to move into the

Video: Shaft

Video Detective — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:15:36 +0000

Richard Roundtree cuts a startlingly new and powerful heroic figure as John Shaft, the cat who won't cop out, when there's danger all about in Gordon Parks' seminal action film, Shaft. John Shaft is a black private eye with a small office near Times Square. On his way there one day, he gets pumped for information by Lt. Victor Androzzi (Charles Cioffi), a friend of his on the police force, about something big going down in Harlem involving black crime kingpin Bumpy Jonas (Moses Gunn). Shaft can't help him and leaves, only to just miss being waylaid by two of Bumpy's strong-arm men at his office, one of whom ends up dead on the pavement eight floors or so below. Squeezed by the cops, who are holding a potential manslaughter arrest over his head, Shaft contacts Bumpy, who reveals that his teenage daughter, whom he's always kept away from his business, has been kidnapped. There's been no ransom demand and no clue as to who did it, and he wants Shaft to find the culprits, insisting that he start with a group of H

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