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...second shift of workers were ready to board the huge bucket that would carry them down to the bottom of the mine shaft, two miles below the surface. The scene: the No. 2 shaft of the Western Deep Levels gold mine in Carletonville, about 50 miles west of Johannesburg. Suddenly rioting broke out. A swelling mob of African mine workers, angered by a chronic wage and job dispute, went rampaging through the pit area, stoning white officials, looting and setting fire to buildings...
Private eyes will peer around every corner of the schedule. There are two black sleuths, CBS'S James-Bonded superstud Shaft (played by Richard Roundtree, who created the role in the film of the same title), and NBC'S Tenafly, a harassed family man who is just another employee at an outfit called Hightower Investigations, Inc. ABC's Griff (Lome Greene) is an ex-cop while in NBC's Faraday and Company Dan Dailey is an ex-con who, after 28 years in a South American jail, is slated to battle future shock as well...
...impoverished Memphis teenager, Singer-Composer Isaac (Hot Buttered Soul, the theme from Shaft) Hayes lived one summer in a junked car. Should the necessity arise again, Hayes, 31, has ensured that he will have all the comforts of-er-home. While seven cars, including his gold-plated 1972 Cadillac Eldorado, rest in his Memphis garages, Hayes tools around the country in his latest acquisition: a 30-ft. silver-gray Cadillac limousine that can be started by remote control in cold weather. Included in the $36,000 price tag: a red velvet love seat, bar, refrigerator, color TV and stereo. Plus...
...Florida farm with facilities for rifle, pistol and mortar practice. Lemmer, who spent approximately two years as an FBI informer, testified that the plotting veterans had traded "dope for weapons." He related that once Defendant John W. Kniffen had demonstrated how to use a crossbow by firing a steel shaft through a door. He also claimed that Camil had asked him to "fill a contract," presumably for a gangland-style murder...
...diamonds, and the chance to do a little something constructive for a change, Priest gets the rebels a large shipment of guns. Superfly rambles. But O'Neal, irreproachably cool as Priest, also directed, and provides several tough, inelegantly effective sequences. That puts him a couple up on Shaft. *Jay Cocks