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, a bit less than the original film's $12 million gross.
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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, a bit less than the original film's $12 million gross.
While New York is never at a loss for criminal activty, things seem to be heating up when an underworld crime figure kills John Shaft's partner, only to discover that the money he was going to use to pay off his gambling debts is missing. He makes a deal with the mobster he owes to share his business, but then also makes the same deal with Bumpy (Moses Gunn) another crime boss. The bullets start to fly when the hoods find they've been played against each other and Shaft decides to clean up the mess.
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