Shaft's Big Score

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Shaft's Big Score
Original theatrical release poster
Directed by	Gordon Parks
Produced by	Ernest Tidyman
Written by	Ernest Tidyman
Starring	Richard Roundtree Moses Gunn Drew Bundini Brown Joseph Mascolo Julius Harris Joe Santos
Music by	Gordon Parks
Distributed by	MGM
Release date(s)	June 18, 1972 (USA)
Running time	104 min.
Language	English
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Shaft's Big Score, released in 1972, is the second film in the trilogy in which actor Richard Roundtree starred as the private-eye, John Shaft. Gordon Parks again directed, and Ernest Tidyman once more supplied the screenplay. Isaac Hayes was unavailable, so Parks, the director, did the score himself. The budget for the film was $1,978,000 and the film grossed $10 million at the box-office[1], a bit less than the original film's $12 million gross.

[edit] Trivia

In this film, Shaft is seen driving a car,a 1972 AMX Javelin as opposed to the first film.

The villains' musclecar seen in the film is a 1968 Ford Torino fastback coupe.

Product placement is obvious in the film (e.g. a few issues of Essence (magazine) and Ebony (magazine) Magazine, and Charmin toilet paper (during the chase scene where the mobster's Ford Torino coupe runs into several crates).

In the film, Shaft did not drive a 1972 AMX, he drove a 1971 Plymouth Road Runner.^{[citation needed]}