Shaft in Africa (1973)

Action, Adventure, Crime, General Film

Director: John Guillermin

Writer(s): Ernest Tidyman (characters), Stirling Silliphant

Starring: Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee, Neda Arneric, Debebe Eshetu, Spyros Fokas, Jacques Herlin, Jho Jhenkins, Willie Jonah, Adolfo Lastretti, Marne Maitland, Frank McRae, Zenebech Tadesse, Avelio Falana, James E. Myers, Nadim Sawalha, Thomas Baptiste, Jon Chevron, Glynn Edwards, Cy Grant, Jacques Marin, Nick Zaran, Aldo Sambrell

Synopsis: P.I. John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.

Release Date: June 14, 1973 (USA) | Length: 92 min | Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime | Certificate: R

Note: I will have to watch the film to identify Zenebech Tadesse because there is a singer by that same name but I’m not sure they are the same person.