Key Cast: Lawrence Cook, Paula Kelly, Don Blakely, Paul Butler, Jack Aaron,
Rating: PG
Genre(s): Crime, Action, Drama, Blaxploitation
"The Spook Who Sat by the Door"
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Description
A Provocative Film!
"The Spook Who Sat By the Door" was an underground bootleg film for years because it was suddenly and mysteriously removed from movie theatres in the United States within three weeks of its release.
The story is about a quiet, unassuming African-American man who becomes the first African-American to complete the CIA training program. To his peers in the program and even to agency personnel, he seems to be an "Uncle Tom." But little does everyone realize that he is an underground revolutionary leader who is determined to get freedom for his people in the inner city.
Trivia
• When "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" was first released in 1973, people in the major cities lined up around the block to see it. But, mysteriously, the movie disappeared from theatres after only three weeks. The director, Ivan Dixon, believed that the film was removed because of FBI pressure. Dixon (and others) asserted that the FBI forced the removal of "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" in theatres as part of its Counter Intelligence Program with the reasoning that the movie might incite riots in the inner city.
• "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" is based on the novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee. The DVD features an interview commentary with Sam Greenlee. Also, Greenlee helped to co-write the movie version. The film is very close to the storyline of the book.
• The director of "The Spook Who Sat by the Door", Ivan Dixon, became quite famous for his role as Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe in the television series "Hogan's Heroes." However, he was also a notable movie director and film actor. Ivan Dixon appears in these two Top 100 Black Classic Movies: Car Wash and Nothing But a Man.
• Jazz great Herbie Hancock composed the soundtrack for the film.
"The Spook Who Sat by the Door" Movie DVD
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"The Spook Who Sat by the Door" is a provocative film
starring Lawrence Cook as a seemingly "Uncle Tom"
CIA agent who is determined to lead a revolution
in the Black Community.
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"The Spook Who Sat by the Door" Book
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The book, "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" was first
published in 1969 in the United Kingdom. Sam Greenlee
wrote this novel
during the heated and contentious time
of Civil Rights in America.
Many critics consider "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" to
be a manual about how to be a successful revolutionary
by learning the system and beating it at its own game.
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"The Spook Who Sat by the Door"
Movie DVD
Price: $19.95
"The Spook Who Sat
By the Door" is about a
Black CIA agent who
appears to be an
"Uncle Tom" but is
actually a man
determined to use his
CIA training to
lead an underground
revolutionary group
in the Black community.
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for purchase details.
Buy
"The Spook Who Sat by the Door"
Book
by
Sam Greenlee
This is the book that the movie is based on. The author, Sam Greenlee, also co-wrote the screenplay for the film.
