Movies
Gordon Parks
Shaft
United States 1971
100 min •
English
K16
Theme: Must see
Ya damn right!
Shaft is a solid cornerstone of the blaxploitation genre, which for the first time brought a dark-skinned action hero to the big screen as a leading role. It´s one of the most groundbreaking film of the 1970s.
In a straightforward plot, Harlem's crime lord hires a confident, tough, and witty private eye, John Sharf to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. Along the way, the villains suffer and the women become charmed. Isaac Hayes received a Grammy Award and an Oscar for moviest hot funk soundtrack and the iconic theme song.