Shaft's Big Score (1972) Starring Richard Roundtree, Wally Taylor, Moses Gunn, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo, Kathy Imrie, Julius Harris, and Rosalind Miles. When Shaft finds out that a dead friend ran a numbers racket out of his legitimate business and left $250,000 unaccounted for, he knows why he has suddenly found himself in the middle of a war between rival thugs. These goons are all trying to take over the territory of the dead man as well as get their hands on the missing 250 grand.