The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
September 21, 1973Release Date
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
September 21, 1973Release Date

Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Lawrence Cook
Dan Freeman

Janet League
Joy

Paula Kelly
Dahomey Queen

J.A. Preston
Dawson

Paul Butler
Do-Daddy Dean

Don Blakely
Stud Davis

David Lemieux
Pretty Willie

Anthony Ray
Shorty

Colostine Boatwright
Dancer

Byron Morrow

Jack Aaron

Ivan Dixon
Director / Producer

Sam Greenlee
Novel / Screenplay / Producer

Melvin Clay
Screenplay

Herbie Hancock
Original Music Composer

Michel Hugo
Director of Photography

A. Leslie Thomas
Art Direction

Michael Kahn
Editor

Thomas Penick
Editor

Thomas G. Neusom
Associate Producer

Cheryal Kearney
Set Decoration

Charlie Picerni
Stunt Coordinator

Bernadine M. Anderson
Makeup Artist

Elaine Aiken
Media.

Details.
Release DateSeptember 21, 1973
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 42m
Content RatingPG
Filming LocationsChicago, United States
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
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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). It is both a satire of the civil rights struggle in the United States of the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of Black militancy. Dan Freeman, the titular protagonist, is enlisted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in its elitist espionage program, becoming its token Black person. After mastering agency tactics, however, he becomes disillusioned and drops out to train young Black people in Chicago to become "Freedom Fighters". As a story of one man's reaction to white ruling-class hypocrisy, the film is loosely autobiographical and personal.
The novel and the film also dramatize the CIA's history of giving training to persons and/or groups who later utilize their specialized intelligence training against the agency – an example of "blowback."
Directed by Ivan Dixon, co-produced by Dixon and Greenlee, from a screenplay written by Greenlee with Mel Clay, the film starred Lawrence Cook, Paula Kelly, Janet League, J. A. Preston, and David Lemieux. It was mostly shot in Gary, Indiana, because the themes of racial strife did not please Chicago's then-mayor Richard J. Daley. The soundtrack was an original score composed by Herbie Hancock, who grew up in the same neighborhood as Greenlee.
In 2012, the film was added to the National Film Registry, which annually chooses 25 films that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
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