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Shaft
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Gordon Parks
Casts & Crew
Richard Roundtree
Moses Gunn
Charles Cioffi
Christopher St. John
Gwenn Mitchell
Lawrence Pressman
Victor Arnold
Sherri Brewer
Rex Robbins
Camille Yarbrough
Margaret Warncke
Joseph Leon
Arnold Johnson
Dominic Barto
George Strus
Edmund Hashim
Drew Bundini Brown
Tommy Lane
Al Kirk
Shimen Ruskin
Antonio Fargas
Gertrude Jeannette
Lee Steele
Damu King
Donny Burks
Tony King
Benjamin R. Rixson
Ricardo Brown
Alan Weeks
Glenn Johnson
Dennis Tate
Adam Wade
James Hainesworth
Clee Burtonya
Ed Bernard
Eddie Barth
Joe Pronto
Robin Nolan
Ron Tannas
Betty Bresler
Gonzalo Madurga
Paul Nevens
Jon Richards
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