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Shaft is stickin' it...all the way.

Private investigator John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.

Director
John Guillermin
Writers
Ernest Tidyman -Stirling Silliphant
Stars
Richard Roundtree -Frank Finlay -Vonetta McGee -Neda Arnerić -Marne Maitland -Debebe Eshetu

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Transcript
00:00You come.
00:15We've found them and Mr. Shaft.
00:18You.
00:19And what do I have to do?
00:21Become a slave.
00:22We need a trained investigator.
00:24He has to let himself be recruited.
00:26In Africa.
00:30Africa's the name.
00:31Shaft's the game.
00:33From MGM.
00:34This is it.
00:35The biggest Shaft of all.
00:38Shaft in Africa.
00:43Shaft is back.
00:45Where he's never been before.
00:48Hitting the mother country like a black tornado.
00:52God named Shaft, then he'll be bad with a stick.
00:55It's a brand new scene.
00:57Cross leg, cross leg.
00:58A whole new number.
01:00When this uptown dude from the concrete jungle trades his wheels for a camel.
01:06And his iron for a C&I stick.
01:1036 exposures.
01:12Extra film in here.
01:13Now, I'm not James Bond.
01:17Simply Sam Spade.
01:22Shaft.
01:23Tracking down a ring of 20th century slave runners.
01:27Across two continents.
01:29Listen.
01:30The Shaft is still breathing by this time tomorrow.
01:33I'll have you killed.
01:34Why don't you really clamp down on the slave trade?
01:40I'll tell you why.
01:41Because the black ghettos of Paris is as far away from the Champs Elysees as 125th Street is from Park Avenue.
01:47From the Sin Towns of the Ivory Coast.
01:53You know who I am, don't you?
01:55Who told you?
01:55Who?
01:56To a slave ship on the Red Sea.
02:00All right, gentlemen.
02:01Everyone into the hold.
02:04Go on, move it.
02:04Black Africa in Paris means black trouble from Shaft.
02:23Now, you're going to get it.
02:42The biggest shaft of all.
02:48In the hottest place of all.
02:53Shaft in Africa.