Shaft's Big Score!

Shaft's Big Score! (1972) is the second Shaft film — watch online on iFILM. Directed by Gordon Parks, it brings Richard Roundtree back as John Shaft, this time investigating the murder of a friend and getting tangled up with multiple factions chasing the same stolen money.

Moses Gunn returns as Bumpy Jonas. Parks — who had made history as the first Black director to helm a major Hollywood studio picture with The Learning Tree in 1969 — pushed the sequel harder: bigger action, sharper editing, and a Harlem that feels genuinely threatening. At 104 minutes it rarely slows. Blaxploitation was at its peak in 1972, and this film is one of the reasons the genre kept its audience through that era. Stream Shaft's Big Score! online on iFILM.