Shaft Format:DVD Spine #929

Spine #929

PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Glenn Kenny and excerpts from a 1970 account in the UCLA Daily Bruin of a visit to the film’s set

New cover by Jody Hewgill

the 1964 novel on which the film is based

Trailer and radio spots

Shaft Format:DVD Spine #929While 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 (Richard Roundtree, in a career defining role), 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