Shaft Format:DVD New interview with filmmaker Francis

New interview with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola

Blending fiction and reality into a playful

the 1964 novel on which the film is based

Spine #929

Selected-scene commentary by French-film scholar Kelley Conway

Shaft Format:DVD New interview with filmmaker FrancisWhile the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder than bad action hero in John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, in a career defining role), a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter