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   Is 'the Spook who sat by the door' based on a true story?

   • Photograph from Everett Ivan Dixon’s 1973 film, “ The Spook Who Sat by the Door ,” which is playing at Metrograph from Friday through Sunday (it’s also on DVD and streaming), is a political fiction, based on a novel by Sam Greenlee, about the first black man in the C.I.A.

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   Is the Spook who sat by the door a good movie?

   • Film critics agree that The Spook Who Sat By the Door is a significant movie in that it presents a highly politically charged vision of black people, and according to PopMatters the film "remains one of the few uncompromised representations of black armed resistance in the United States."

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   What does 'the Spook who sat by the door' mean?

   • (The title of “The Spook Who Sat by the Door” plays on the racial slur as well as the slang for “spy,” and alludes to the conspicuous deployment of the agency’s one black officer to display its phony integration.)

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   Is the Spook who sat by the door released in Canada?

   • Be the first to contribute. By what name was The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973) officially released in Canada in English? The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more...

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   Who wrote the Spook who sat by the door?

   • Richard Brody writes about Ivan Dixon’s “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” from 1973, which displays the bedrock of racist attitudes and assumptions that renders racist policies both inescapable and irreparable.

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   When was the Spook who sat by the door adapted?

   • The 1969 novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door, from which the film was adapted, had been much rejected by mainstream publishers on both sides of the Atlantic before the author met Margaret Busby in London in 1968, and her new company Allison & Busby took on the book and launched it the following year to much critical attention.

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   The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 1973 action crime – drama film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee (which was first published in the United Kingdom by Allison and Busby after being rejected by American publishers).

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   Dec 23, 1981 · The Spook Who Sat by the Door: Directed by Ivan Dixon. With Lawrence Cook, Janet League, Paula Kelly, J.A. Preston. A black man plays 'uncle Tom' in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American revolt.

   • 7.1/10 (1.6K)
   • Genre: Action, Drama, Crime

   • Director: Ivan Dixon
   • Release Date: 1981-12-23

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   A former CIA agent (Lawrence Cook) organizes black teenagers into well-trained guerrilla bands bent on overthrowing the white establishment.

   • 75% (12)
   • Director: Ivan Dixon

   • Content Rating: PG
   • Actors: Lawrence Cook

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   Aug 20, 2022 · Overlooked at the time in the midst of the blaxploitation cycle, Ivan Dixon's film challenges both the genre conventions and political status quo of American cinema. A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.

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   Sep 16, 2023 · The film depicts a Black man who infiltrates the CIA, learns their secrets, and uses that knowledge to start a revolution against racial biases and government oppression.

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   In order to improve his standing with Black voters, a White Senator starts a campaign for the CIA to recruit Black agents. However, all are graded on a curve and doomed to fail, save for a soft-spoken veteran named Dan Freeman.

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   A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.