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1) Shaft
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JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ's youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem's heroin-infested underbelly. And while JJ's own FBI analyst's badge may clash with his dad's trademark leather duster, there's no denying family....
2) Shaft
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Criterion collection volume 1130
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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 gangsters,...
3) Shaft
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To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
4) Shaft
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Criterion collection volume 1130
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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
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He's the coolest private detective around, caught up in all the hottest cases. Streetsmart Harlem sleuth John Shaft likes his women chic, his cars fast, and his clothes expensive. He takes the fight to mob lowlifes, scumballs, and vigilantes who prey upon Shaft's pals and other decent, everyday people.
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African-American private investigator Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenaged daughter; Shaft comes to the aid of his girlfriend after her brother is murdered by the mob; Shaft goes to Africa to track down a slave-trading operation and becomes entangled in an international scheme of corruption and murder.
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"After a high profile case that put him in the headlines, private detective John Shaft is looking for something low profile and easy that will keep him out of the spotlight and out of danger. Shaft takes a missing person case that proves to be more difficult than he initially thought. At the same time, he is hired to be a consultant on a low budget film that may or may not be based on his life, and proves to be as dangerous as any job he's ever had....
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"He's gone toe-to-toe with organized crime bosses, stood up to the cops, squared off against kidnappers, and foiled assassination attempts. But who was John Shaft before he became the hardboiled investigator with a reputation as big as New York City itself? Recently arriving home from his tour of duty in Vietnam, his first case--tracking down a missing person for his girlfriend--quickly turns into a matter of life and death, making him a target of...
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