Shaft goes to Africa, and goes full camp in the process. 

The similarities between John Shaft and James Bond have never been difficult to identify. But this third installment feels like an undisguised attempt at fully rebranding the character as the Black 007. Give Richard Roundtree credit; he shows more skin than any Bond Girl ever did, and provides ample evidence that Shaft was packing more heat than Connery, Moore, or any of their ilk ever had in their wildest dreams. 

All hints of hard edged neo-noir styling have departed the series with original director Gordon Parks. Instead new headman John Guillerman brings the same type of cheesy entertainment value that characterized his later blockbusters The Towering Inferno and King…

1973heehee #16

"How long is your phallus, Mr. Shaft?

My what?

Your cock?

Baby, by now it shrunk down to 20 inches."

New York private eye John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) has one last 70s cinema outing, in his most violent and ambitious adventure yet. Shaft is recruited to go undercover to dismantle a human trafficking ring in Africa that smuggles immigrants into France.
Violence and nudity is ramped up quite a bit in this second sequel. It has intentions for sure, highlighting the white exploitation of blacks, human trafficking, though seems to make a bit of a hash of confronting female genital mutilation, turns out you can just say no...not sure it really works like that. Anyhoo it's interesting to…

In 1973's Shaft in Africa, New York's baddest Brother Man does indeed go to the Motherland, but he also goes to France too - proving that he's quite the Harlem globetrotter in this third and final instalment in the original trilogy of films.

In fact, this is the closest the Shaft series got to resembling a James Bond movie, which is pretty ironic given that the Bond film that year - Roger Moore's debut, Live and Let Die - was getting in on the blaxploitation act. Contemporary reviews of late seem to want to dismiss Shaft in Africa's Bondian tropes as an example of the franchise jumping the shark, but in actuality, Shaft with his handsome good looks, his potent…

Шафта нанимает африканский принц чтобы тот вычислил банду работорговцев в Африке.
Третий фильм про частного детектива получил нового режиссёра (далеко не последнего) и свежее направление, амбициозно двинувшись от криминала с нуаром к Джеймсу Бонду, правда не очень понимая, как это реализовать адекватно.
Вместо запоминающегося супер злодея тут унылые работорговцы, для победы над которыми не требуется элитных навыков, что и подтверждает убожество их тактики - подсылать к Шафту убийц по-одному, то киллера в костюме бабушки-уборщицы, то самого зловещего белого в автобусе, заполненного африканцами. Но и план героя - прикидываться местным, одев тряпье, не сильно лучше, поскольку изъясняться он может только по-английски и вообще любой, кто к нему подходит уже знает его имя. Так что плохо выглядят все, в том числе и…

Shaft in Africa (1973) is a movie I recently watched on HBOMAX. The storyline follows Shaft as he investigates an underground slave trade occurring in Paris. He tracks the people responsible for the trade all the way back to Africa where he plans to bring them to justice the Shaft way.

This movie is directed by John Guillermin (The Towering Inferno) and stars Richard Roundtree (Shaft), Neda Arneric (When the City Awakes), Frank Finlay (Lifeforce), Vonetta McGee (Repo Man), Spyros Fokas (The Jewel of the Nile) and Frank McRae (License to Kill).

This should have been a non-Shaft movie and its own independent film, it would have been so much better. It did have some cool elements. I did like…