Shaft

Blu-ray 1971

While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangster...

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Explore Topics & Themes:

African American private investigators Fiction

Gangsters Fiction

Kidnapping Fiction

Shaft, John (Fictitious character) Fiction

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Action and adventure films Feature films Fiction Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1130 Criterion collection ; 1130 Blu-ray

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ISBN:

9781681439433
883929333943

Edition:

Two-Blu-ray special edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (100 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
wide screen
HDTV
video file
Blu-ray video
region A

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A
MPAA rating: R

Other Title:

Shaft (Motion picture : 1971) [Blu-ray]
container of (work): Shaft's big score! (Motion picture) [Blu-ray]

Notes:

Number of discs may vary
Originally released as a motion picture in 1971
Special features include: Alternate uncompressed stereo soundtrack remastered with creative input from Isaac Hayes III; Shaft's big score, the sequel to Shaft; new documentary featuriung Rhea L. Combs, Racquel J. gates, Nelson George and Shana L. Redmond; Soul in Cinema: Filming "Shaft"; Archival interviews with Parks, Isaac Hayes and Richard Roundtree; new program on Hayes's score; new interview with Joseph G. Aulisi; new program on the Black detective featuring Scholar Kinohi Nishikawa and Walter Mosley; A Complicated Man: The "Shaft" legacy; essay by film scholar Amy Abugo Ongiri
Title from container
Music, Isaac Hayes, J.J. Johnson ; director of photography, Urs Furrer ; editor, Hugh A. Robertson
Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Antonio Fargas
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; monaural
For private home use only
Audio tracks in English, captions in English

Contents:

Disc 1. Shaft (Blu-ray)
Disc 2. Bonus disc (Blu-ray)

Control Number:

3182836

UPC:

012569505124
715515272513

Other Authors:

Black, John D. F., screenwriter
Cioffi, Charles, 1935- actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Freeman, Joel, film producer
Gunn, Moses, 1929-1993, actor
Hayes, Isacc, composer (expression)
Johnson, J. J., composer (expression)
Lewis, Roger, 1918-1984, film producer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, presenter
Parks, Gordon, 1934-1979, film director
Roundtree, Richard, 1942-2023, actor
Silliphant, Stirling, 1918-1996, film producer
Tidyman, Ernest, screenwriter

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