Who directed the original 1971 Shaft film?
Quentin Tarantino
Gordon Parks
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
Answer
The original Shaft film was directed by Gordon Parks. Parks was a pioneering African-American photographer and filmmaker who had previously directed the 1969 film The Learning Tree. Shaft was a major commercial success and helped to establish the blaxploitation genre. The film starred Richard Roundtree as Shaft, a private detective who is hired by a crime boss to find his missing daughter.
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