Richard Roundtree: An American Cinematheque Retrospective - Shaft's Big Score

The American Cinematheque is delighted to pay tribute to the late, great Richard Roundtree, an actor whose on-screen presence has rarely been rivaled and whose influence is forever etched into the tapestry of the American film industry.

Shaft's Big Score

You can’t say the mob wasn’t warned about John Shaft. “He’s a bad dude,” a numbers racketeer cautions them. Now Shaft himself will deliver that message in a way New York City’s wise guys understand. Richard Roundtree reunites with the director (Gordon Parks) and the screenwriter (Ernest Tidyman) of 1971’s trendsetting SHAFT for SHAFT’S BIG SCORE, the second of Roundtree’s three movie portrayals of the street-smart, leather-jacketed private investigator. This time, the blown-to-kingdom-come murder of a client plunges Shaft into a case that bounces him like a pinball between the 133rd Precinct and competing mobs.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: WARNER BROS.

COUNTRY: USA

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)