- Shaft in Africa
Infobox Film | name = Shaft in Africa
caption = Original theatrical release poster
director =John Guillermin
producer =
writer =Stirling Silliphant
starring =Richard Roundtree Frank Finlay Neda Arneric Vonetta McGee Frank McRae
music =
cinematography =
editing =
distributor =MGM
released =June 14 , 1973 (USA)
runtime = 112 min.
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0070679
preceded_by = "Shaft's Big Score ""Shaft in Africa", released in 1973, is the third film in the trilogy of films that starred actor
Richard Roundtree asJohn Shaft .John Guillermin directed andStirling Silliphant did the screenplay. The cost went up to $2,142, 000, but the gross fell to $1,458,000.MGM quickly sold the property to television, but the television series was cancelled after just seven episodes.Plot
While in Africa, John Shaft is persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor, to assume the identity of a native-speaking itinerant worker in the country. His job is to help break a criminal that is smuggling immigrants into Europe then exploiting them. But the villains have heard that he is on his way.
Shaft must pass a test before being hired for the job; the test involves him surviving in a small, overheated room without water, and a floor covered in deep sand, mimicking the supposed conditions of
Africa . Shaft ingeniously covers himself with the sand, thereby avoiding heatstroke and winning the contract from his employer.ee also
*"Shaft"
1971
*"Shaft's Big Score "1972 External links
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