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Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.
Julius Harris
- Capt. Bollin
- (as Julius W. Harris)
Angelo Gnazzo
- Al
- (as Angelo Nazzo)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaGordon Parks the films director composed the score for this film and is drastically different than the one written by Issac Hayes in the original film. Parks influence on this film is based work on the legendary jazz pianist Duke Ellington and it is noticeable in several cues including the one written for the films' signature chase sequence which runs nearly 20 minutes that ends the film.
- GoofsObvious fake helicopter that Shaft shoots and it explodes. Its rotors were not spinning before the explosion and it was hanging from the overhead steel framework of the abandoned shipyard before being dropped in flames. Additionally, a fiery explosion happens on the ground underneath the helicopter even before it hits the ground.
- Quotes
Shaft: What are you buzzards doing here?
Bumpy Jonas: Well, well. Ha. We go to a lot of funerals, Shaft, Willy and me. One day, we'll drop in on yours.
Willy: Real soon.
Shaft: You're not invited.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted (2004)
Featured review
A bit disappointing but Roundtree is still super cool.
I'm not sure what went wrong with this sequel to 'Shaft'. Once again Gordon Parks directs, Ernest Tidyman writes and Richard Roundtree stars, but there's something missing. It isn't anywhere near as entertaining as the original and the story is very thin and padded out. The score isn't as good either. Isaac Hayes only contributes one number, Parks himself does the rest. Moses Gunn and Drew Bundini Brown reprise their roles as Bumpy and Willy and blaxploitation fave Julius W. Harris ('Superfly', 'Black Caesar') appears as a cop who forms an uneasy alliance of sorts with Shaft. Also check out future soap star Joseph Mascolo as a clarinet playing mobster called, er, Mascolo and Joe Santos later of 'The Rockford Files' as his right hand man. Richard Roundtree is still super cool as John Shaft and he helps make this movie to be fairly enjoyable. Personally I prefer the third in the series 'Shaft In Africa' to this, but if the truth be told neither sequel is a patch on the original which in an undisputed blaxploitation classic and essential viewing for any 70s buff.
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- Jan 19, 2004
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- Also known as
- The Big Bamboo
- Filming locations
- 833 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA(Cypress Hills cemetery - Cal Asby's funeral)
- Production companies
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- Budget
- $1,978,000 (estimated)
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