Tag: Ernest Tidyman

Shaft In Africa Script

Script by:Ernest Tidyman (Author), Stirling Silliphant (Author)
Directed by:John Guillermin
Year:1973
IMDb:tt0070679

Plot:Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
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Force Of One Script

Script by:Ernest Tidyman (Screenplay), Ernest Tidyman (Story), Pat E. Johnson (Story)
Directed by:Paul Aaron
Year:1979
IMDb:tt0079168

Plot:Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.
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Report To The Commissioner Script

Script by:James Mills (Novel), Abby Mann (Screenplay), Ernest Tidyman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Milton Katselas
Year:1975
IMDb:tt0073620

Plot:Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
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Shaft (2019) Script

Script by:Ernest Tidyman (Novel), Ernest Tidyman (Characters), Alex Barnow (Screenplay), Kenya Barris (Screenplay), Eric Stull (Screenplay)
Directed by:Tim Story
Year:2019
IMDb:tt4463894

Plot:JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.
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Shaft Script

Script by:Ernest Tidyman (Author), John Singleton (Author), Shane Salerno (Author), Richard Price (Author)
Directed by:John Singleton
Year:2000
IMDb:tt0162650

Plot:New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
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The French Connection Script

Script by:Ernest Tidyman (Screenplay), Robin Moore (Author)
Directed by:William Friedkin
Year:1971
IMDb:tt0067116

Plot:Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
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