IMDb RATING
6.0/10
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Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.
Julius Harris
- Capt. Bollin
- (as Julius W. Harris)
Angelo Gnazzo
- Al
- (as Angelo Nazzo)
Storyline
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- TriviaGordon Parks the films director composed the score for this film and is drastically different than the one written by Issac Hayes in the original film. Parks influence on this film is based work on the legendary jazz pianist Duke Ellington and it is noticeable in several cues including the one written for the films' signature chase sequence which runs nearly 20 minutes that ends the film.
- GoofsObvious fake helicopter that Shaft shoots and it explodes. Its rotors were not spinning before the explosion and it was hanging from the overhead steel framework of the abandoned shipyard before being dropped in flames. Additionally, a fiery explosion happens on the ground underneath the helicopter even before it hits the ground.
- Quotes
Shaft: What are you buzzards doing here?
Bumpy Jonas: Well, well. Ha. We go to a lot of funerals, Shaft, Willy and me. One day, we'll drop in on yours.
Willy: Real soon.
Shaft: You're not invited.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted (2004)
Featured review
(77%) Very likely to be the most backed blaxploitation movie of them all, as the original was such a big hit both critically and financially. Most of the blaxplotation boxes are ticked here, Shaft is super cool, the music is great, some of the lines are very funny, he gets the girls, the opening is great, the bad guys are mostly white gangsters with a lone black guy letting the side down, it's all there, but what this has that all others don't is the fantastic action-packed ending. As action sequences go this is one of the best I've ever seen, it just goes on and on and I loved every second of it and it looks as if the director Mr Parks was given free control to do what ever her wanted and he really went for it. This could very likely be may favourite of the breed as along with "Black Caesar", it's a fine example of what the series was capable of when everything slotted into place so well.
- adamscastlevania2
- Oct 6, 2014
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- Also known as
- The Big Bamboo
- Filming locations
- 833 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA(Cypress Hills cemetery - Cal Asby's funeral)
- Production companies
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- Budget
- $1,978,000 (estimated)
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