Shaft in Africa - 1973
THE Brother Man in the Motherland.
Director(s)
John Guillermin
Writer(s)
Ernest Tidyman (characters)
Stirling Silliphant (written by)
Producer(s)
René Dupont associate producer
Roger Lewis producer
Cast
Richard Roundtree - John Shaft
Frank Finlay - Vincent Amafi
Vonetta McGee - Aleme
Neda Arneric - Jazar
Debebe Eshetu - Wassa
Spiros Focás - Marco Sassari
Jacques Herlin - Perreau
Jho Jhenkins - Ziba
Willie Jonah - Oyo
Adolfo Lastretti - Pino
Marne Maitland - Col. Gonder
Frank McRae - Oziot
Zenebech Tadesse - The Prostitute
A.V. Falana - Ramila's Son
James E. Myers - Williams
Nadim Sawalha - Zubair
Thomas Baptiste - Kopo
Jon Chevron - Shimba
Glynn Edwards - Vanden
Cy Grant - Emir Ramila
Jacques Marin - Insp. Cusset
Nick Zaran - Sadi
Aldo Sambrell - Angelo
Review by Theo Robertson
Shaft in Africa (1973)
Yo This Momma Is One Hot Cat,
Is this a racist film? Let’s examine the evidence where the black hero dude is a funky sex machine (Notice how the soundtrack sounds exactly like porno muzak?) and where the hero says brother, cat and baby a lot as in " Yo brother “, " she’s a hot cat " and " Start talking baby or I’ll break your other arm “, and lets not forget that this movie has black and white villains with the bad guy’s moll having a fetish for black men. You really do get the feeling that if the Nazis had won the war we’d never get to see a film like SHAFT IN AFRICA. Fair enough it’s guilty of playing up to stereotypes but I actually like to see stereotypes now and again
The actual storyline feels more like a James Bond movie than the previous urban thrillers featuring Shaft, it’s somewhat episodic and very bloodthirsty with the hero surviving a murder attempt by a white guy then surviving a murder attempt by a black guy then surviving a murder attempt by another white guy.
As I said I did enjoy the political incorrectness and the high body count. It’s far better than any of the other SHAFT movies and I’m including the recent Samuel L Jackson version
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