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Shaft's Big Score!

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Release Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2019
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: $17.99

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Directed by: Gordon Parks

Featuring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo, Kathy Imrie, Wally Taylor, Julius Harris, Rosalind Miles, Joe Santos

You can't say the mob wasn t warned about John Shaft. He s a bad dude, a numbers racketeer cautions them. Now, Shaft himself will deliver that message in a way New York City's wiseguys understand. Richard Roundtree reunites with the director (Gordon Parks) and screenwriter (Ernest Tidyman) of 1971's trendsetting Shaft for Shaft s Big Score!, the second of Roundtree's three movie portrayals of the street-smart, leather-jacketed private investigator. This time, the blown-to-kingdom-come murder of a client plunges Shaft into a case that bounces him like a pinball between the 133rd Precinct and competing mobs. But the players are about to be played in this rousing and entertaining thriller (Newsweek).

Year: 1972
Time: 104 min.