Shaft

Private detective John Shaft, played by Richard Roundtree, made James Bond look positively chaste.

He was the 'black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks', in the words of the Oscar-winning theme song by Isaac Hayes, who was the epitome of Seventies cool.

There is plenty of sex and violence in what is now regarded as a classic blaxploitation picture, which inspired a couple of sequels as well as a television series.

Dressed in his trademark turtleneck sweater and leather jacket, Shaft is hired to track down the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem gang lord.

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