The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)

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102 min - Action | Drama | Crime - 23 December 1981 (France)

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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.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	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
	Byron Morrow	...	General
	Jack Aaron	...	Carstairs
	Joseph Mascolo	...	Senator Hennington
	Elaine Aiken	...	Mrs. Hennington
	Beverly Gill	...	Willa
	Bob Hill	...	Calhoun
	Martin Golar	...	Perkins
	Jeff Hamilton	...	Policeman

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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. After grueling training in guerrilla warfare, clandestine operations and unarmed combat, he is assigned a meager job as the CIA's token Black employee. After five years of racist and stereotyped treatment by his superiors, he quietly resigns to return to his native Chicago to work for a social services agency...by day. By night, he trains a street gang to be the vanguard in an upcoming race war, using all that the CIA has taught him... Written by Baroque

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USA

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English

Release Date:

23 December 1981 (France) See more »

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De zwarte CIA-agent See more »

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63rd Street & Cottage Grove Avenue, Woodlawn, Chicago, Illinois, USA See more »

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102 min

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Mono

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1.85 : 1

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The actor who played Pretty Willie (David Lemieux) was a member of the Black Panthers and later became a Chicago police detective. See more »

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Dan Freeman: You have just played out the American dream... and now, we're gonna turn it into a nightmare.
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Spoofed in Black Dynamite (2009) See more »

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