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Shaft (1971)

★ 6.4 · 410 ratings on TMDB

The mob wanted Harlem back. They got Shaft...up to here.

Shaft poster★ 6.4

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

DirectorGordon Parks
CastCamille Yarbrough, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman, Moses Gunn
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Shaft keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E9/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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