BIBFRAME Work

Title

Shaft

Type

Monograph
Moving Image

Contribution

Lewis, Roger, 1918-1984 (film producer)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (publisher)
Freeman, Joel (film producer)
Mitchell, Gwenn, 1948- (actor)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (production company)
Parks, Gordon, 1934-1979 (film director)
Tidyman, Ernest (screenwriter)
Silliphant, Stirling, 1918-1996 (film producer)
Gunn, Moses, 1929-1993 (actor)
Cioffi, Charles, 1935- (actor)
St. John, Christopher, 1942- (actor)
Brown, Drew Bundini, 1928-1987 (actor)
Black, John D. F. (screenwriter)
Robertson, Hugh A. (editor of moving image work)
Furrer, Urs (cinematographer)
Hayes, Isaac (composer (expression))
Roundtree, Richard, 1942-2023 (actor)

Subject

African American private investigators (LCSH)
Shaft, John (LCSH)
African American private investigators (FAST)
Shaft, John (Fictitious character) (FAST)

Genre Form

Fiction films (FAST)
Detective and mystery films (FAST)
Fiction films (LCGFT)
Action and adventure films (LCGFT)
Detective and mystery films (LCGFT)
Feature films (LCGFT)
Motion pictures (LCGFT)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired (LCGFT)
Drama (LCGFT)
Action and adventure films (FAST)
Feature films (FAST)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired (FAST)
Drama (FAST)

Language

English

Classification

LCC: DVE 7923 (viewing copy) (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

two-dimensional moving image

Note

Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Drew Bundini Brown.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Director of photography, Urs Furrer; music, Isaac Hayes; editor, Hugh A. Robertson.
This film was selected for the National Film Registry.

Summary

The nephew of the original John Shaft, who shares his name, is determined to track down the only witness who can identify a deadly racist killer. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger.