THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1973
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
• Plot: 'the spook who sat at the door'; ; Possibly the most radical of the 'blaxploitation' films of the 70s, this movie was an overnight success when it was released in 1973 and then was abruptly taken out of distribution for reasons that are still not entirely clear. A mild-mannered social worker (Lawrence Cook) is recruited by the CIA as a token black and then proceeds to learn (and later apply) the techniques of urban guerrilla warfare in Chicago (though most of the filming was done in Gary, Indiana). Corrosively ironic and often exciting, this adaptation by Sam Greenlee of his own novel, directed by Ivan Dixon, remains one of the great missing (or at least unwritten) chapters in black political filmmaking.;
• Cast: Perry Thomas, Bobbie Gene Williams, Cora Williams, Johnny Williams, Mark Williams, Lawrence Cook, Jack Aaron, Elaine Aiken, Tom Alderman, Kathy Berk, Don Blakely, Colostine Boatwright, Paul Butler, John Charles, Sidney Eden, Stephen Ferry II, Stephen Ferry, Frank E. Ford, Robert Franklia, Beverly Gill, Martin Golar, Don Greenlee, Jeff Hamilton, Harold Harris, Jim Heard, Bob Hill, Doug Johnson, Harold Johnson, Johnnie Johnson III, Virgie Johnson, Paula Kelly, Margaret Kromgols, Larry Lawrence, Janet League, David Lemieux, Frank Lesley, Ramon Livingston, Tyrone R. Livingston, Joseph Mascolo, Rodney McGrader, Byron Morrow, Lenard Norris, Ponciano Olayta Jr., Kenneth Lee Orme, J.A. Preston, Anthony Ray, Ernest Robinson, Audrey Stevenson, Orlanders Thomas, Ivan Dixon
• Director: Ivan Dixon
• Runtime: 1:30
• Company: HK Video (Taiwan) Co.
• Media Format: Movie