“Who’s the Black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks? Who is the man who would risk his neck for his brother man? Who’s the cat that won’t cop out when there’s danger all about?”
Richard Roundtree plays John Shaft in this seminal genre film from director Gordon Parks. Set to the pulsating sound of a wah-wah guitar, Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and bring back his kidnapped daughter. “Shaft” opened the doors for a new generation of more diverse talent in Hollywood action films, kick-starting the Blaxploitation era. Can you dig it?

100 minutes, Rated R.

This screening will be at the Santikos Northwest theater.

Proceeds benefit Texas Public Radio