Shaft (1971 - 2019): 5

Shaft (2019) is a film directed by Tim Story and written by Kenya Barris and Alex Barnow. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher, Regina Hall, and Richard Roundtree, it is the fifth installment in the Shaft series and a direct sequel to the 2000 film of the same name. This was also

The American action crime thriller film, Shaft (2000), was both co-written and co-produced by John Singleton. In the initial investigation of Trey Howard’s brutal attack outside a restaurant in 1998, NYPD Detective John Shaft apprehends Walter Wade Jr., the son of a wealthy real estate mogul, after noticing blood on his person. Claiming self-defense, Wade is taken into custody by Shaft. While surveying the scene, Shaft notices an injured waitress named Diane Palmieri who appears to be eyeing Wade. Attempting to gather crucial information from her, Shaft is unsuccessful in coaxing a statement. A friend of ...

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 – ...

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 ...