Christopher St. John

After being passed over for promotion, an African-American cop decides to clean up the streets with a campaign of unspeakable violence.

Gordon Parks' film features Isaac Hayes' classic theme song and Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, a black detective hired to find a Harlem mobster's beautiful kidnapped daughter.

An electrician joins an elite squad of operatives, but quickly finds he does not like their crooked ways. Now he must outwit them, or die trying.