Bill Duke on Shaft

Gordon Parks and Ernest Tidyman transformed the action film with this charismatic, Chandleresque Brooklyn private eye played by Richard Roundtree, the spiritual father to Foxy Brown, Cotton, The Hammer and many others. One of the first and slickest of the "blaxploitation" films, it was followed by two sequels, a tv series and a recent remake starring Samuel L. Jackson. Isaac Hayes' title song won the Oscar.

Trailersfromhell | August 31, 2009

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