Editing Shaft's Big Score! (section)

{{Short description|1972 film by Gordon Parks}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Shaft's Big Score!
| image          = ShaftBigScore.png
| caption        = Theatrical release poster by John Solie
| director       = [[Gordon Parks]]
| writer         = [[Ernest Tidyman]]
| based_on       = {{based on|''[[Shaft (novel)|Shaft]]''<br>1970 novel|Ernest Tidyman}}
| producer       = {{Plain list |
* Roger Lewis
* Ernest Tidyman
}}
| starring       = {{Plain list |
* [[Richard Roundtree]]
* [[Moses Gunn]]
* [[Drew Bundini Brown]]
* [[Joseph Mascolo]]
* [[Julius Harris]]
* [[Joe Santos]]
}}
| cinematography = Urs Furrer
| editing        = Harry Howard
| music          = Gordon Parks
| distributor    = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]
| released       = {{Film date|1972|6|21|New York|ref1=<ref name="defender">"'Shaft's Big Score' has tri-city premieres". ''[[The Chicago Defender]]''. June 21, 1972. p. 12. "New York, Philadelphia and Chicago are set for special tri-city world premieres this week of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film 'Shaft's Big Score!'..."</ref><ref name="afi">{{cite web |url=http://catalog.afi.com/Film/54646-SHAFT'S-BIG-SCORE!?sid=eb312729-1f9b-436a-94dd-2b6cb2d24165&sr=5.467126&cp=1&pos=0#3 |title=Shaft's Big Score! - Details |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]] |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=May 7, 2019 }}</ref>}}
| runtime        = 105 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $1.978 million
| gross          = $10 million<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1972/0SHA2.php|publisher=The Numbers|title=Shaft's Big Score, Box Office Information|access-date=January 21, 2012}}</ref>
}}
'''''Shaft's Big Score!''''' is a 1972 American [[blaxploitation]] [[Action film|action]]-[[crime film]] starring [[Richard Roundtree]] as private detective [[John Shaft]].<ref name="Shaft's Big Score!">{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1496/shafts-big-score#credits|title=Shaft's Big Score!|website=[[Turner Classic Movies]]|publisher=[[Turner Broadcasting System]] ([[Time Warner]])|location=[[Atlanta]]|access-date=December 10, 2016}}</ref> It is the second entry in the [[Shaft (film series)|''Shaft'' film series]], with both director [[Gordon Parks]] and screenwriter [[Ernest Tidyman]] reprising their roles from the [[Shaft (1971 film)|first film]]. [[Moses Gunn]] and [[Drew Bundini Brown]] also return from the previous film, alongside new appearances from acting veterans [[Joseph Mascolo]], [[Julius Harris]] and [[Joe Santos]].<ref name="Shaft's Big Score!" /> Composer [[Isaac Hayes]] turned down an offer to score the film (though he did contribute the song "Type Thang"), so Parks, also a musician, composed and performed the score himself.

The film was produced on a budget of $1,978,000, over three times that of its predecessor. It received mixed reviews, with critics praising the improved production values and direction, but criticizing it as lacking the charm and appeal of the original. It was followed by ''[[Shaft in Africa]]'' one year later.