Actress Vonetta McGee (1945)

The Eiger Sanction (1975), an American action film, features both Clint Eastwood as director and leading actor. Adapted from the 1972 novel of the same name by Trevanian, it follows the story of Jonathan Hemlock – an art professor and skilled mountaineer who also happens to be a retired government assassin. Despite having left his previous profession behind, he is suddenly called back for two more ‘sanctions’ – or officially sanctioned killings. Throughout his time with the secretive government agency known as ‘C2’, Hemlock had amassed ...

The third installment of the Shaft series, Shaft in Africa (1973), is an American blaxploitation film directed by John Guillermin. In his New York City apartment, protagonist John Shaft is drugged and taken against his will to Africa. He is forced to take on a new identity as an itinerant worker who speaks the local language in order to help take down a criminal organization that is smuggling immigrants into Europe and exploiting them. However, the villains are already aware of his arrival. Shaft successfully passes a grueling test as part of the hiring process – ...