Shaft is a 1971 blaxploitation film which tells the story of a detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob in order to find the missing daughter of a fl mobster.
The movie was adapted by Ernest Tidyman and John D.F. Black from the novel by Tidyman.
Shaft's character embodied standard movie-detective coolness, but brought it to a new level by adding pronounced flness.