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    Shaft’s Big Score (1972)

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    Richard Roundtree and Moses Gunn returned in the sequel to the huge blockbuster Shaft (1971), which kicked off the early 1970s blaxploitation craze – and later inspired the Quentin Tarantino release Jackie Brown (1997).

    shaftsbigscore_003Private eye John Shaft is in pursuit of the gang members who murdered his undertaker friend Cal Asby (Robert Kya-Hill), who had hidden $250,000 of underworld money in a coffin in Harlem.

    Here, the private-eye hero acts more like a hip James Bond than a retro Sam Spade, in a routine social conscience tale that finds him avenging the murder while retrieving money stolen by warring gangsters.

    The New York harbour ending is memorably exciting.

    John Shaft
    Richard Roundtree
    Bumpy Jonas
    Moses Gunn
    Willy
    Drew Bundini Brown
    Gus Mascola
    Joseph Mascolo
    Rita
    Kathy Imrie
    Kelly
    Wally Taylor
    Captain Bollin
    Julius Harris
    Arna Asby
    Rosalind Miles
    Pascal
    Joe Santos
    Al
    Angelo Nazzo
    Johnson
    Don Blakely
    Junior Gillis
    Melvin Green Jr
    Cal Asby
    Robert Kya-Hill

    Director
    Gordon Parks

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