Shaft (1971)

Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks and starring Richard Roundtree. It is the first film in the Shaft franchise.
==Plot==
Harlem-based private investigator John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) is assigned to track down a drug kingpin's (Moses Gunn) missing daughter (Sherri Brewer).
==Cast==
*Richard Roundtree as John Shaft
*Moses Gunn as "Bumpy" Jonas
*Drew Bundini Brown as Willy
*Charles Cioffi as Lieutenant Vic Androzzi
*Christopher St. John as Ben Buford
*Gwenn Mitchell as Ellie Moore
*Lawrence Pressman as Tom Hannon
*Victor Arnold as Charlie
*Tony King as Davies
*Sherri Brewer as Marcy Jonas
*Rex Robbins as Rollie
*Camille Yarbrough as Dina Greene
*Margaret Warncke as Linda
*Joseph Leon as Byron Leibowitz
*Arnold Johnson as Cul
*Antonio Fargas as "Bunky"
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