Shaft

Introduction and comments following Shaft, 1971, with TCM's Dave Karger and guest Chris Isaak.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Shaft, 1971.

Director Gordon Parks (with a cameo!) uses another Isaac Hayes song, Soulsville, with another montage of his leading man (Richard Roundtree) this time in Harlem, also visiting Bunky (Antonio Fargas), in Shaft, 1971.

The totally excellent opening by director Gordon Parks featuring the title character (Richard Roundtree, flashing his private-eye badge) cruising Times Square, nearing its sleazier days, to Isaac Hayes' Academy Award-winning title song, from Shaft, 1971.

Confirming his suspicions, Richard Roundtree (title character) discovers that his Times Square-area office is being staked out (by Tommy Lane and Al Kirk) and fisticuffs ensue, early in director Gordon Parks Jr's hit Shaft, 1971.

A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob in Shaft (1971), starring Richard Roundtree.