Private detective John Shaft, played by Richard Roundtree, made James Bond look positively chaste. He was the 'black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks', in the words of the Oscar ...

New York Police Detective John Shaft is the lead detective on a sensitive case, a young black man is severely beaten. The man's companions tell Shaft that their friend humiliated the one who was ...

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.

In the 1970s, Richard Roundtree introduced the world to John Shaft, a detective on a mission to rid Harlem’s streets of gangsters and drug dealers – while dressed to the nines. Roundtree ...

Here, it is the nephew of John SHAFT (actually his son) who takes up the torch.