Special features: alternate uncompressed stereo soundtrack remastered with creative input from Isaac Hayes III; Shaft's Big Score!, the 1972 follow-up to Shaft by director Gordon Parks; new documentary on the making of Shaft featuring curator Rhea L. Combs, film scholar Racquel J. Gates, filmmaker Nelson George, and music scholar Shana L. Redmond; behind-the-scenes program featuring Parks, actor Richard Roundtree, and musician Isaac Hayes; archival interviews with Hayes, Parks, and Roundtree; new interview with costume designer Joseph G. Aulisi; new program on the Black detective and the legacy of John Shaft, featuring scholar Kinohi Nishikawa and novelist Walter Mosley; A complicated man: the "Shaft" Legacy (2019); Behind-the-scenes footage from Shaft's Big Score!; trailers. 1 folded insert: includes an essay by film scholar Amy Abugo Ongiri.
Also includes 2 Blu-ray discs, one with a copy of the movie and one with the special features.
Sources used: videodisc container; Internet movie database, December 20, 2022.
Originally produced in the United States, released as a motion picture in 1971.
[United States]: The Criterion Collection, [2022]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stirling Silliphant, Roger Lewis production ; screenplay by Enest Tidyman and John D.F. Black ; produced by Joel Freeman ; directed by Gordon Parks
4K ultra HD TV with HDR, Ultra HD blu-ray player, high-speed HDMI (category 2) cable; 4K television required for full 4k UHD effect; can also be viewed using a 1080 television without full 4K UHD effects.