Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88666 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-06-11
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 108 minutes

From the Back Cover
A suave British dealer (Robert Shaw of Jaws) recruits an American thief (Richard Roundtree of Shaft) and his beautiful girlfriend (Barbara Hershey) for a true criminal masterpiece: the robbery of $100 million worth of cut gems from a cault inside an Israeli skyscraper and guarded by a state-of-the-art security system designed by his identical twin brother (also played by Robert Shaw). But even if they can outsmart the alarms, crack the safe and snag the stones, how are the best thieves in the game going to escape with the world's biggest batch of Diamonds?
Shelley Winters co-stars in this suspense-filled heist thriller with a wild final twist, directed by Menahem Golan (Delta Force, Operation Thunderbolt) and filmed on location in London and Tel Aviv.

Customer Reviews

Good heist film with an unexpected twist.
No, this isn't a Shaft movie. The name was changed. It is a great bit of 70's cinema shot in the middle east with low quality production. Beyond that the story is average, but it's the twist in the end that gives it two extra stars.

This is a terrible storyline
Richard Roundtree's character isn't even named Shaft.He is actaully named Archie.This is a story about a jewel-thief released from prison / trying to do the right thing. A person would think by the title 'Shaft' that it would be as good as the trilogy;this isn't the case. Put your blaxploitation spending cash back in your wallet and walk away. This is garbage and chances are your vcr will break in the process.

Total cheese!!!
Who wrote this script? What a terrible way to end the Shaft dynasty.

In one of the scenes Ninjas are on on top of huge boulders shooting arrows at Shaft. Shaft manages to catch one of the arrows and throws it back at the Ninja, fatally killing him. Can you believe that? The Batman television series has better actions scenes. I've seen better acting in Fast Actin' Tinactin!

Do yourself a favor and buy a Dirty Harry movie in lieu of Diamond Shaft.