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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.