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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Christopher St. John

Christopher St. John appears in Shaft, the film adaptation of the book by Ernest Tidyman Shaft, first published in 1970.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Shaft. Poster of the 1971 movie and cover of the 1970 book
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Ernest Tidyman, 1970
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Gordon Parks, 1971

In January 1971, John Shaft, a private detective, is informed that some gangsters are looking for him. During a short fight, Shaft dodges one of them who goes out the window, while the other surrenders and reveals to him that Bumpy Jonas, the leader of a Harlem-based organized crime family, wants Shaft brought uptown to Harlem for a meeting.