| Shaft's Big Score | |
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Original theatrical release poster by John Solie |
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| Directed by | Gordon Parks |
| Produced by | Ernest Tidyman Roger Lewis |
| 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 Warner Bros. (DVD)[1] |
| Release date(s) | June 8, 1972 |
| Running time | 104 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | 10,000,000 |
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.
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While New York is never at a loss for criminal activity, things take a turn for the worse when the corrupt co-owner of a funeral parlor and insurance agency kills his partner, a personal friend of John Shaft, only to discover that the money he was planning to steal so to pay his gambling debts is missing. He makes a deal with the mobster he owes (Joseph Mascolo) to split the business but also makes the same deal with crime lord Bumpy Jonas (Moses Gunn). The bullets start flying when the hoods find they've been played against each other, and Shaft is forced to clean up the mess.
The movie received a lukewarm reception from critics,[2] although Roger Ebert awarded the film 3 stars out of 4.[3]
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