| Description |
2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.. |
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digital optical mono LPCM rda |
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wide screen rdaar |
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HDTV rda |
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video file region A rda |
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Blu-ray video |
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Motion picture |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 1130.
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| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1971. |
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Based on the novel by Ernest Tidyman. |
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Features: "Shaft's big score!" (1972) / directed by Gordon Parks; new documentary on the making of Shaft featuring curator Rhea L. Combs, film scholar Racquel J. Gates, filmmaker Nelson George, and music scholar Shana L. Redmond; behind-the-scenes program featuring Parks, actor Richard Roundtree, and musician Isaac Hayes; archival interviews with Hayes, Parks, and Roundtree; new interview with costume designer Joseph G. Aulisi; new program on the Black detective and the legacy of John Shaft, featuring scholar Kinohi Nishikawa and novelist Walter Mosley; A complicated man : the Shaft legacy; behind-the-scenes footage from "Shaft's big score;" trailers. |
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MPAA Rating: R |
| Cast |
Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell. |
| Summary |
An African-American detective is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenaged daughter, and finds himself caught in a struggle among feuding factions of the underworld. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: R. |
| System Details |
Blu-ray ; LPCM mono, wide screen 1.85:1. These are Blu-ray discs which can only be played on Blu-ray disc players and will not play on standard DVD players. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned. |
| Subject |
Shaft, John (Fictitious character) -- Drama.
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Tidyman, Ernest -- Film adaptations.
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African American private investigators -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Organized crime -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Gangsters -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Crime films.
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Action and adventure films.
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Film adaptations.
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Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006, director.
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Roundtree, Richard, 1942- actor.
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Gunn, Moses, 1929-1993, actor.
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Cioffi, Charles, 1935- actor.
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| Added Title |
Shaft's big score! (Motion picture)
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| Standard No. |
715515272513 |
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00715515272513 gtin-14 |
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