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Title Shaft / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant-Roger Lewis production ; screenplay by Ernest Tidyman and John D.F. Black ; produced by Joel Freeman ; directed by Gordon Parks .

Publication Info. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2000]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  791.4372 Sh13 2000    ---  Available
Description 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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video v rdamedia
videodisc vd rdacarrier
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
stamping rdapm
Description digital optical mono Dolby digital rda
video file rdaft
DVD video
region 1 rdare
Motion picture.
System Details DVD, region 1, double-sided; standard and widescreen versions; Dolby digital mono.
Language English or dubbed French dialogue, with optional English or French subtitles; closed-captioned.
Cast Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn.
Credits Music, Isaac Hayes ; director of photography, Urs Furrer ; film editor, Hugh A. Robertson.
Note Originally produced as motion picture in 1971.
Based on the novel by Ernest Tidyman.
Standard (full screen 1.33:1) and widescreen (1.85:1) versions.
Audience MPAA rating: R.
Summary Detective John Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the black underworld's uptown territory.
Contents [Side A]. Standard [full screen] -- [side B]. Widescreen.
Note Special features: behind-the-scenes documentary, Soul in cinema: filming Shaft on location; 3 theatrical trailers.
Awards Academy Awards, 1972: Best Music, Original Song (Hayes)
Golden Globes, 1972: Best Original Score - Motion Picture (Hayes)
Access Educational and home use only.
Subject Tidyman, Ernest, 1928-1984vFilm adaptations.
Shaft, John (Fictitious character) -- Drama.
African American private investigators -- Drama.
Shaft, John (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst01115060
Tidyman, Ernest, 1928-1984. (OCoLC)fst01929538
African American private investigators. (OCoLC)fst01764196
7.150.
Detective films and programs.
Black films and programs.
Indexed Term Shaft, John (Caractére factice) Drame.
Genre/Form DVD-Video discs.
Feature films -- United States.
Films for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710386
Detective and mystery films. (OCoLC)fst01710476
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
Film adaptations. (OCoLC)fst01710491
Feature films.
Mystery films.
Feature films.
Detective and mystery films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Feature.
Mystery.
Crime.
Thriller.
Detective films and programs.
Black films and programs.
Features.
Added Author Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006 director.
Silliphant, Stirling, 1918-1996, producer.
Lewis, Roger, 1918-1984 producer.
Freeman, Joel, producer.
Tidyman, Ernest, 1928-1984 screenwriter.
Black, John D. F., screenwriter.
Roundtree, Richard, 1942-2023 actor.
Gunn, Moses, 1929-1993 actor.
Hayes, Isaac, 1942-2008 composer.
Robertson, Hugh A., film editor.
Furrer, Urs, cinematographer.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Tidyman, Ernest. Shaft.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, presenter.
Warner Home Video (Firm), publisher.
Added Title Container of (work): Shaft (Motion picture : 1971)
Container of (expression): Shaft (Motion picture : 1971). French.
Sequel: Shaft's big score! (Motion picture)
ISBN 0790743752
9780790743752
Standard No. 012569505124
Music No. 65051 Warner Home Video

 
    
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