Shaft's Big Score

1972 • 100 minutes
4.8
36 reviews
58%
Tomatometer
R
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New York City Private detective John Shaft gets a pre-dawn phone call from a panicked friend, Cal Asby, but he arrives at Asby's funeral home just before the building blows up--killing Asby and starting an underworld war in Shaft's Big Score. Searching for Asby's killer, Shaft (Richard Roundtree) soon learns that Asby ran a gambling racket, doing business with Harlem gang lord Bumpy Jonas (Moses Gunn). Now the racket's cash is missing; rival gangs are battling for Asby's turf ... and only one man's bad enough to stop the violence--John Shaft!
Rating
R

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4.8
36 reviews
George Otwori
April 20, 2014
The first one was a small caper dealing with kidnapping and Ransom. The second one takes a brief look at a numbers racket and multiple crews searching for dead bookie half million dollars.
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Kalemanao
March 19, 2020
Wonderful, terrific flashback! They just don't make movies like they use to. Richard Roundtree will always be SHAFT!!!
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Dan Addis
April 16, 2020
Second best of the Shaft trilogy!
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