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Shaft in Africa (1973) 5.7
P.I. John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work. Director:John Guillermin |
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Cast
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Amafi
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Neda Arneric | ... |
Jazar
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Debebe Eshetu | ... |
Wassa
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Spiros Focás | ... |
Sassari
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Jacques Herlin | ... |
Perreau
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Jho Jhenkins | ... |
Ziba
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Willie Jonah | ... |
Oyo
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Adolfo Lastretti | ... |
Piro
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Marne Maitland | ... |
Col. Gonder
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Osiat
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Zenebech Tadesse | ... |
The Prostitute
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A.V. Falana | ... |
Ramila's Son
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James E. Myers | ... |
Williams
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John Shaft is persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor, to assume the identity of a native-speaking itinerant worker in Africa. His job is to help break a racket that is smuggling immigrants into Europe then exploiting them. But the villains have heard that he is on his way. Written by Jeremy Perkins <jwp@aber.ac.uk>
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THE Brother Man in the Motherland. See more »Parents Guide:
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14 June 1973 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
O Shaft htypa stin Afriki See more »Company Credits
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2.35 : 1
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Sung by The Four Tops (as Four Tops)
Words and Music by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter
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Shortly before he boards the ship for France, Shaft is involved in a fight in which his right hand is severely bitten by his opponent, drawing quite a bit of blood. Yet when he boards the ship, his right hand is completely wound free. See more »Quotes
Amafi: Listen, Mr. Wassa. I don't love this young lady. I don't even particularly like her. But she's the only person in the world I've ever found who can get it up for me.See more »
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Referenced in Without Walls: Kiss My Baadasssss Ice-T's Guide to Blaxploitation (1994) See more »Soundtracks
"Are You Man Enough"Sung by The Four Tops (as Four Tops)
Words and Music by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter
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After the abysmal Shaft's Big Score, this second follow-up to the original 1971 legend is much finer stuff. John Guillermen takes over from blaxplotation maestro Gordon Parks as director and excellently brings freshness to the whole thing, with Richard Roundtree's supercool private eye being sent to Ethopia in order to infiltrate and bring down a ruthless slave-trading scam.
This entry is wonderfully self-concious in the fact that it all smacks of the Bond saga - even Shaft says it when he finds himself handed a couple of gadgets for his mission. Therefore, there's a strong and largely satisfying formula behind the whole affair. The action is still a little clumsy and quite excessively violent, but in general this is bigger, brighter and funner than what came before it.