River Oaks Theatre Friday Midnight Movie: Shaft
- When
- July 07, 2016
- Where
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River Oaks Theatre
2009 West Gray St
Houston,TX 77019 - Cost
- $7.50 - $62
Every Friday and Saturday night at 11:55pm, it’s another Midnight Movie Classic at the Landmark River Oaks Theatre.
Friday, July 8: Shaft
SHAFT (R)
1 hrs, 40 mins
RELEASE:
07/02/1971
CAST:
Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Christopher St. John, Charles Cioffi, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman
DIRECTOR:
Gordon Parks
John Shaft is an icon of change from an era of change. Today, Shaft still tells it like it is. The “shut-your-mouth” detective is someone to reckon with, a fact emphasized from the film’s start by Isaac Hayes’ Academy Award-winning Best Original Song and Oscar-nominated score.
Richard Roundtree plays the smart, tough, confident lead, a private investigator whose hunt for a kidnapped woman puts him in the middle of feuding syndicates.
Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree, Shaft’s Big Score) directs from a screenplay that Ernest Tidyman (that same year’s Oscar winner for The French Connection) co-scripted from his own novel.
