John Shaft

John Shaft is a fictional character created by screenwriter/novelist Ernest Tidyman. A sort of African-American answer to Ian Fleming's James Bond. The blurb on the paperback on which the original film is based states Shaft is "Hotter than Bond, cooler than Bullitt."

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• Shaft (1970)
• Shaft Among the Jews (1972)
• Shaft's Big Score (1972)
• Shaft Has a Ball (1973)
• Goodbye, Mr. Shaft (1973)
• Shaft's Carnival of Killers (1974)
• The Last Shaft (1975)

Ernest Tidyman: Ernest Tidyman (January 1 1928 - July 14 1984) is an American author and Academy Award winning screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio....

African-American: African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans, Black Americans, or simply blacks are an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to West and Central Africa. Many African Americans have European and/or Native American ancestry as well....

Ian Fleming: Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was an English author, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels as well as the children's story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang....

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