Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
- paris
- france
- language course
- africa
- illegal immigration
- human trafficking
- ethiopia
- circumcision
- blaxploitation cinema
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Debebe Eshetu — Wassa
- Spiros Focás — Marco Sassari
- Jacques Herlin — Perreau
- Jho Jhenkins — Ziba
- Willie Jonah — Oyo
- Adolfo Lastretti — Piro
- Marne Maitland — Col. Gonder
- Frank McRae — Osiat
- Zenebech Tadesse — The Prostitute
- Avelio Falana — Ramila's Son
- James E. Myers — Williams
- Directed
- John Guillermin
- Written
- Stirling Silliphant
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 85 ratings
- Studio
- Shaft Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1971Shaft
Where it starts.
Shaft in Africa
1973 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
