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Films

Who's the guy with all the chicks?


Shaft

The film that gave birth to the blaxploitation genre. Private dick John Shaft (Richard Rowntree) cuts a swathe through New York's underworld, righting wrongs with a strut and a swagger to the music of Isaac Hayes.

Rowntree�s �ghetto James Bond� returned in a string of sequels with bigger guns and bigger budgets - but for most moviegoers this first picture remains the defining moment.


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