23 Jun 1971
Shaft
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Top Billed Cast
Fred Williamson Tommy Gibbs
Gloria Hendry Helen
Art Lund McKinney
D'Urville Martin Rev. Rufus
Julius Harris Mr. Gibbs
Minnie Gentry Mama Gibbs
Philip Roye Joe Washington
William Wellman Jr. Alfred Coleman
James Dixon "Irish" Bryant
Val Avery Cardoza
Patrick McAllister Grossfield
Don Pedro Colley "Craw"
Myrna Hansen Virginia Coleman
Omer Jeffrey Tommy (as a boy)
Michael Jeffrey Joe (as a boy)
Cecil Alonzo "Sport"
Andrew Duggan Man at Shoeshine (uncredited)
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