52 Pick-Up diving Richard Roundtree "Shaft" is pictured

Richard Roundtree "Shaft" is pictured as the black freedom fighter angry at British sanctions in Rhodesia

The film is a Blaxploitation movie which by 1972 was well established as a genre

Paul Dehn's script and great artwork proving that it takes more than the destruction of the earth to keep a good ape down

Wonderful art - The title style is so similar to that used for the film poster for Marilyn in 1963 - the typography and colour use adds to the style making the film poster the last word on the film

In the backdrop of this detailed artwork are the ships and police car

52 Pick-Up diving Richard Roundtree "Shaft" is picturedJohn Frankenheimer directs.