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Shaft in Africa (1973)

Movie"Shaft is stickin' it...all the way."
Audience Score
60
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R 1 hr 52 minJun 14th, 1973Crime, ActionShaft Collection PosterPart of Shaft Collection
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
StarringRichard RoundtreeFrank FinlayVonetta McGee
DirectorJohn Guillermin
WriterStirling Silliphant

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:June 14th, 1973
On DVD & Blu-ray:June 6th, 2000 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$2,142,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$1,458,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Shaft Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Movie Tags:
paris, franceafricahuman traffickingblaxploitation cinemaillegal immigrationethiopiacircumcisionlanguage course

Shaft Collection

The Shaft trilogy is composed of action-crime films centered on an African-American police detective named John Shaft, who over the course of the films have altercations with a variety of crime. The films are characterized by their blaxploitation characteristics.