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Rex Robbins' first film role.
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Gordon Parks: [Essence Magazine] Shaft is seen reading a copy of Essence Magazine in his girlfriend's apartment. Parks is a co-founder of Essence. The magazine is spotted when Shaft is engaging in a conversation with a blind newsstand vendor during the opening sequence.
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Scene had Shaft with Tommy gun.
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This is one of the first movies that has a character saying he is gay.
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Isaac Hayes was the first African-American to win the Academy Award for Best Song.
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Charles 'Skip' Pitts played the guitar riff in the theme song.
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Ron O'Neal auditioned for the role of John Shaft. He was turned down because the producers felt his complexion was too light.
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One of only three films MGM released in 1971 that made a profit, and it helped save the studio from bankruptcy.
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Was rumored to be written as just another detective movie, with a white detective in the lead, but, after the success of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971), the film was rewritten and recast as a blaxploitation movie. This story has been told several times by director Melvin Van Peebles. However, it is probably apocryphal. The Ernest Tidyman novel which was the basis for the film is about a black detective and not a white one. Furthermore, "Shaft" began filming in January, 1971 - months before Van Peebles' film was released in April.
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Moses Gunn's character, Bumpy Jonas, is based on Bumpy Johnson, an African-American mobster in the 1930s.
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Shaft tells Bumpy his fee is $50/hr (plus expenses), which would equate to $310/hr in 2017.
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The picture of Christopher St. John (Ben Buford) is not correct here.
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By 2019, there would be three cinematic generations of John Shaft. Original MGM version's Richard Rountree, would later appear as uncle to the "semi-reboot" Samuel L Jackson version, who in turn will be the father to the Usher version in the Warner Bros-New Line Cinema-Netflix version. The 2019 version features all three generations of the family members named John Shaft.
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Isaac Hayes auditioned for the title role. Producers cast Richard Roundtree, but were so impressed with Hayes that they asked him to write the now legendary score to the film.
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Gordon Parks: as a landlord when Shaft is looking for Ben Buford.
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Isaac Hayes took his grandmother with him as his plus-one for the Academy Awards.
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Although not the first of its kind, "Shaft" is seen as being the definitive blaxploition movie.
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The background singers in the film's theme song are Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson from Tony Orlando & Dawn.
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