Dynamic Samuel L. Jackson stars as New York City cop John Shaft, who quits the force and decides to dispense his own brand of vigilante justice against a racist killer (Christian Bale) and a ...

The Shaft trilogy is composed of action-crime films centered on an African-American police detective named John Shaft, who over the course of the films have altercations with a variety of crime.

In Richard Roundtree's first outing as supercool private-eye John Shaft (which he would play in two sequels and a short-lived CBS TV series), the sleuth is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his ...