Movie
1972
Shaft's Big Score! is a 1972 American blaxploitation action-crime film starring Richard Roundtree as private detective John Shaft. It is the second entry in the Shaft franchise, with both director Gordon Parks and screenwriter Ernest Tidyman reprising their roles from the first film. Moses Gunn and Drew Bundini Brown also return from the previous film, alongside new appearances from acting veterans Joseph Mascolo,…
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In the early 1970s black private superdetective John Shaft was supposed to replace James Bond as the world's most popular action hero. Unfortunately, the series of Shaft movies failed to repeat the most important accomplishment of the early 1960s Bond films - each of the sequels being better than the original. Instead of that Shaft films were falling into the same pattern as most of the modern-day sequels - larger b…More
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