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| + | {{Infobox Movie|{{PAGENAME}} | ||
| + | |name=Shaft in Africa | ||
| + | |picture=Shaft in africa.jpg | ||
| + | |caption=''Theatrical Release Poster'' | ||
| + | |country=[[Image:USA.jpg|25px]]United States | ||
| + | |director=John Guillermin | ||
| + | |date=1973 | ||
| + | |studio=Shaft Productions | ||
| + | |distributor=Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | ||
| + | |character1=John Shaft | ||
| + | |actor1=[[Richard Roundtree]] | ||
| + | |character2=Amani | ||
| + | |actor2=[[Frank Finlay]] | ||
| + | |character3=Aleme | ||
| + | |actor3=[[Vonetta McGee]] | ||
| + | |character4=Osiat | ||
| + | |actor4=[[Frank McRae]] | ||
| + | |character5=Cussett | ||
| + | |actor5=[[Jacques Marin]] | ||
| + | |character6=Marcel Sassari | ||
| + | |actor6=[[Spiros Focás]] | ||
| + | }} | ||
| + | '''''Shaft in Africa''''' is the 1973 sequel in the ''[[Shaft (disambiguation)|Shaft film series]]''. Directed by [[John Guillermin]], the sequel finds John Shaft ([[Richard Roundtree]]) traveling undercover to Africa to take down a criminal smuggling ring. Roundtree would then reprise his role nearly three decades later, co-starring alongside [[Samuel L. Jackson]] in the ''[[Shaft (2000)|2000 sequel]]'' and then in the ''[[Shaft (2019)|2019 feature film]]''. | ||
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| + | __TOC__<br clear="all"> | ||
| + | =Handguns= | ||
== Luger P08 == | == Luger P08 == | ||
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While in Africa, one of Amafi's ([[Frank Finlay]]) assassins, Marcel Sassari ([[Spiros Focás]]) fires at John Shaft ([[Richard Roundtree]]) with a [[Luger P08]], fitted with a small suppressor. After Sassari is killed, Shaft takes the pistol and uses it for the rest of the movie. | While in Africa, one of Amafi's ([[Frank Finlay]]) assassins, Marcel Sassari ([[Spiros Focás]]) fires at John Shaft ([[Richard Roundtree]]) with a [[Luger P08]], fitted with a small suppressor. After Sassari is killed, Shaft takes the pistol and uses it for the rest of the movie. | ||
There seems to be quite a large sound effects problem throughout the movie. The Luger is never seen without the suppressor, but when Sassari fires at Shaft, the gun's sound effects are of an unsuppressed weapon. Later, when killing another assassin on the boat in the Red Sea, the gunshots are silenced. Then, for the rest of the film, the gunshots are back to unsuppressed. | There seems to be quite a large sound effects problem throughout the movie. The Luger is never seen without the suppressor, but when Sassari fires at Shaft, the gun's sound effects are of an unsuppressed weapon. Later, when killing another assassin on the boat in the Red Sea, the gunshots are silenced. Then, for the rest of the film, the gunshots are back to unsuppressed. | ||
| − | + | [[Image:P08Luger1917.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Luger P08 - 9x19mm]] | |
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[[Image:shaft3 luger1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Sassari fires at Shaft]] | [[Image:shaft3 luger1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Sassari fires at Shaft]] | ||
[[Image:shaft3 luger2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The assassin searches for Shaft]] | [[Image:shaft3 luger2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The assassin searches for Shaft]] | ||
[[Image:shaft3 luger3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shaft loads a 9mm magazine into the Luger after killing Sassari]] | [[Image:shaft3 luger3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shaft loads a 9mm magazine into the Luger after killing Sassari]] | ||
| − | [[Image:shaft3 luger4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shaft shoots the assassin on board the ship in the Red Sea. | + | [[Image:shaft3 luger4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shaft shoots the assassin on board the ship in the Red Sea.]] |
[[Image:shaft3 luger5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shaft searches the Paris apartment with the Luger]] | [[Image:shaft3 luger5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shaft searches the Paris apartment with the Luger]] | ||
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== M1911A1 == | == M1911A1 == | ||
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The [[M1911A1]] is used by many of Amafi's assassins and thugs throughout the film. | The [[M1911A1]] is used by many of Amafi's assassins and thugs throughout the film. | ||
| − | + | [[Image:M1911Colt.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Colt M1911A1 .45 ACP]] | |
| − | [[Image:M1911Colt.jpg|thumb|none| | ||
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[[Image:shaft3 19111.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Close up of the suppressed Colt that shoots one of the escaped African slaves in the beginning]] | [[Image:shaft3 19111.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Close up of the suppressed Colt that shoots one of the escaped African slaves in the beginning]] | ||
[[Image:shaft3 19112.jpg|thumb|none|600px|An assassin (Dressed as a cleaning woman) fires at Shaft]] | [[Image:shaft3 19112.jpg|thumb|none|600px|An assassin (Dressed as a cleaning woman) fires at Shaft]] | ||
| − | + | == Arminius HW-3 Snubnose == | |
| − | == Arminius HW- | + | Shaft uses a [[Arminius HW-3]] Snubnose in the beginning to fire at Oziot ([[Frank McRae]]), with a bulletproof vest stopping the bullets. Another assassin trying to kill Shaft in Africa uses one as well. |
| − | + | [[Image:ArminiusC.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Arminus HW-3 - .22]] | |
| − | Shaft uses a [[ | ||
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[[Image:shaft3 model191.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shaft fires at Oziot.]] | [[Image:shaft3 model191.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shaft fires at Oziot.]] | ||
[[Image:shaft3 model192.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shaft reaches for the assassin's snubnose]] | [[Image:shaft3 model192.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shaft reaches for the assassin's snubnose]] | ||
| − | == | + | ==Tokarev TT-33 == |
| + | Amafi ([[Frank Finlay]]) uses an older [[Tokarev TT-33 Pistol]] when facing off with Shaft in the end. | ||
| + | [[Image:TT-33-Wartime.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Tokarev TT-33 - 7.62x25mm Tokarev. Pre-1947 version.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Shaft3_06.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Amafi ([[Frank Finlay]]) uses an older [[Tokarev TT-33 Pistol]] when facing off with Shaft.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:shaft3 norinco1.jpg|thumb|none|601px|Amafi faces off with Shaft with his [[Tokarev TT-33 Pistol]].]] | ||
| + | [[Image:shaft3 norinco002.jpg|thumb|none|601px|Firing the [[Tokarev TT-33 Pistol]].]] | ||
| − | + | == Webley Senior Air Pistol == | |
| + | One of Col. Gonder's men is briefly seen with a [[Webley Senior Air Pistol]], holding it on Shaft. It is only shown briefly in someone's hand so the grip is not visible, but from how it is being held it appears to be a slant grip model. | ||
| + | [[File:Seniorweb588.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Webley Senior Air Pistol, slant grip post-war - .22]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Shaft airpistol1.jpg|thumb|none|600px]] | ||
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| + | == Star Z45 == | ||
| + | One of Amafi's men in the Paris apartment fires at Shaft with a [[Star Z45]] submachine gun. After killing him, Shaft takes it and uses it when facing off with Amafi. | ||
| + | [[Image:STAR Z45.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Star Z45 - 9x23mm]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Shaft z451.jpg|thumb|none|601px|The thug aims at Shaft with a [[Star Z45]] submachine gun.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Shaft z452.jpg|thumb|none|601px|Shaft takes the dead thug's [[Star Z45]] submachine gun.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Shaft z453.jpg|thumb|none|601px|Shaft burst through the doors with the [[Star Z45]] submachine gun.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Shaft z454.jpg|thumb|none|601px|Shaft faces off with Amafi armed with the [[Star Z45]] submachine gun and the Luger P08.]] | ||
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| − | + | == Lee-Enfield No. 1 Mk III == | |
| + | Some of the slave ring guards are seen with [[Lee-Enfield No. 1 Mk III]] Rifles. Shaft also has one of the DVD cover. | ||
| − | + | [[File:SMLE Mark III.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Lee-Enfield No. 1 Mk III - .303 British]] | |
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[[Image:Shaft leeenfield1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|]] | [[Image:Shaft leeenfield1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|]] | ||
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| + | {{Shaft}} | ||
[[Category:Movie]] | [[Category:Movie]] | ||
[[Category:Crime]] | [[Category:Crime]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Detective]] | ||
[[Category:Blaxploitation]] | [[Category:Blaxploitation]] | ||
| + | [[Category:John Guillermin]] | ||
Latest revision as of 22:17, 11 December 2021
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Shaft in Africa is the 1973 sequel in the Shaft film series. Directed by John Guillermin, the sequel finds John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) traveling undercover to Africa to take down a criminal smuggling ring. Roundtree would then reprise his role nearly three decades later, co-starring alongside Samuel L. Jackson in the 2000 sequel and then in the 2019 feature film.
The following weapons were used in the film Shaft in Africa:
Handguns
Luger P08
While in Africa, one of Amafi's (Frank Finlay) assassins, Marcel Sassari (Spiros Focás) fires at John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) with a Luger P08, fitted with a small suppressor. After Sassari is killed, Shaft takes the pistol and uses it for the rest of the movie.
There seems to be quite a large sound effects problem throughout the movie. The Luger is never seen without the suppressor, but when Sassari fires at Shaft, the gun's sound effects are of an unsuppressed weapon. Later, when killing another assassin on the boat in the Red Sea, the gunshots are silenced. Then, for the rest of the film, the gunshots are back to unsuppressed.
M1911A1
The M1911A1 is used by many of Amafi's assassins and thugs throughout the film.
Arminius HW-3 Snubnose
Shaft uses a Arminius HW-3 Snubnose in the beginning to fire at Oziot (Frank McRae), with a bulletproof vest stopping the bullets. Another assassin trying to kill Shaft in Africa uses one as well.
Tokarev TT-33
Amafi (Frank Finlay) uses an older Tokarev TT-33 Pistol when facing off with Shaft in the end.
Amafi faces off with Shaft with his Tokarev TT-33 Pistol.
Firing the Tokarev TT-33 Pistol.
Webley Senior Air Pistol
One of Col. Gonder's men is briefly seen with a Webley Senior Air Pistol, holding it on Shaft. It is only shown briefly in someone's hand so the grip is not visible, but from how it is being held it appears to be a slant grip model.
Submachine Guns
Star Z45
One of Amafi's men in the Paris apartment fires at Shaft with a Star Z45 submachine gun. After killing him, Shaft takes it and uses it when facing off with Amafi.
The thug aims at Shaft with a Star Z45 submachine gun.
Shaft takes the dead thug's Star Z45 submachine gun.
Shaft burst through the doors with the Star Z45 submachine gun.
Shaft faces off with Amafi armed with the Star Z45 submachine gun and the Luger P08.
Rifles
Lee-Enfield No. 1 Mk III
Some of the slave ring guards are seen with Lee-Enfield No. 1 Mk III Rifles. Shaft also has one of the DVD cover.
