Greetings from pistols

Movie
German title	Greetings from pistols
Original title	Shaft's Big Score
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1972
length	104 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Gordon Parks
script	Ernest Tidyman
production	Roger Lewis ; Ernest Tidyman
music	Gordon Parks ; Isaac Hayes
camera	Urs Furrer
cut	Harry Howard
occupation
	Richard Roundtree : John Shaft; Moses Gunn : Bumpy Jonas; Drew Bundini Brown : Willy; Joseph Mascolo : Gus Mascola; Kathie Imrie : Rita; Wally Taylor : Johnny Kelly; Julius W. Harris : Capt. Bollin; Rosalind Miles : Arna Asby; Joe Santos : Pascal; Angelo Nazzo : Al; Don Blakely : Johnson; Melvin Green Jr .: Junior Willis; Cihangir Gaffari : Jerry;
chronology
← Predecessor ; Shaft	Successor → ; Shaft in Africa

With love from pistols (alternative title: Shaft - Love from pistols ) is an American thriller from 1972 by director Gordon Parks . The film is the second part of the Shaft film series and premiered in Germany on May 25, 1973. It is based on the novel Shaft's Big Score (dt. Shaft at the Congress of the gravediggers ) by Ernest Tidyman , who also wrote the screenplay.

action

Funeral director Kal Asby, a friend of Shaft's, is killed by a bomb at his company. The investigating Capt. Bollin suspects that Asby was also involved in the gambling business with Gus Mascola. He suspects Shaft to have killed his friend in order to realize Asby's plan with Bumpy Jonas. Shaft's investigation leads to his partner Johnny Kelly, who intends to do business with Mascola instead of Asby. Kelly, for his part, is now trying to set Bumpy, Mascola and Shaft against one another by false tracks in order to save his neck and avoid his debts with Mascola. Shaft, who has already had to fend off an attempted murder by Mascola's people, turns the tables and is now hunting his opponents. With Asby hiding the proceeds of his business well before his death, all sides are desperate to find this. Only Kelly has any idea that it is hidden in Asby's coffin herself. Now it comes to a showdown in the cemetery and a car-to-helicopter chase that ends at the disused New York Naval Shipyard .

Others

Julius W. Harris later became known for the role of Tee Hee in the James Bond film Life and Let Die .

criticism

Lexicon of international film : crime thriller from the “Shaft” series, superficially, with a feeling for literal “black and white” effect, aimed at chic and smoothness. A perfect dream factory product.

More Shaft films

Television series

1973–1974: Shaft (TV series)

Web links

Shaft's Big Score in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Greetings from pistols. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[1] Greetings from pistols. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .