Director Gordon Parks (1912)

Shaft’s Big Score! (1972) is an American blaxploitation action-crime film starring Richard Roundtree as private detective John Shaft. After receiving a distressing call from his old friend Cal Asby, a Queens insurance salesman and mortician, Shaft rushes to his aid. However, upon arrival at Asby’s house, he discovers that his friend has been killed by a bomb. Despite being questioned by the skeptical police Captain Bollin, Shaft is eventually cleared of suspicion. Meanwhile, Asby’s partner Johnny Kelly owes $250,000 in gambling debts to mob boss Gus Mascola. However, before Shaft, Kelly, and ...

Shaft (1971), an American blaxploitation crime action thriller film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black, is based on Tidyman’s novel of the same name and marks the first installment in the Shaft film series. In January of that year, private detective John Shaft receives word that a group of gangsters are after him. quickly taking action, he confronts one of them in his office building and forces him to lead him to their ...