Charles Cioffi

A private eye's friend disappears and the only clue is his connection with a call girl.

Gordon Parks' film features Isaac Hayes' classic theme song and Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, a black detective hired to find a Harlem mobster's beautiful kidnapped daughter.

When Jack the Ripper steals his time machine, H.G. Wells pursues him across time, racing to stop his reign of terror before history is rewritten.

Oscar winner Anthony Quinn stars as a notorious crime czar who triggers a bloody mob war when he discovers that an ambitious lieutenant from his own family has become a romantic rival.