Cheap Shaft in Africa (DVD) (John Guillermin) Price

The second sequel to the hit Shaft, this film foreshadows itself early on when Shaft, asked to go undercover in Africa to halt modern-day slave trade, claims that he's not James Bond but strictly Sam Spade. Bond, however, is the operative model here, with John Shaft masquerading as an Ethiopian to infiltrate the slave business and bring it down. Yet everyone he encounters seems to know who he is and wants to kill him--but the string of dead bodies he leaves in his wake across two continents proves that no one is able to stop everyone's favorite hip private eye. Written by Stirling Silliphant, the film is long on action set pieces that are filmed with more energy than in Shaft's Big Score. Given contemporary practices involving smugglers of illegal Chinese and Mexican immigrants, the plot isn't all that far-fetched. Roundtree, as usual, is the picture of unflappable cool--but don't get him mad. --Marshall Fine

CATEGORY:	DVD
DIRECTOR:	John Guillermin
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE:	14 June, 1973
MANUFACTURER:	Warner Home Video
MPAA RATING:	R (Restricted)
FEATURES:	Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
TYPE:	Action, Action / Adventure, Action Thriller, Adult Situations, Adventure, Americans Abroad, Blaxploitation, Bright, Colonialism, Color, English, Feature, Feature Film Urban Action, Fish Out of Water, Forceful, Gritty, Movie, Not For Children, Nudity, Political Corruption
MEDIA:	DVD
MPN:	D65302D
# OF MEDIA:	1
UPC:	012569530225