The Spook Who Sat by the Door
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"I wrote it as a training manual so that people would do it right."
"I've been bootlegging it myself out of my shoulder bag."
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"I wrote it as a training manual so that people would do it right."
"I've been bootlegging it myself out of my shoulder bag."
- ~Sam Greenlee
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[Estados Unidos, 1973]
Directed by
Ivan Dixon
Writing credits
Sam Greenlee (screenplay) &
Melvin Clay (screenplay) (as Mel Clay)
Sam Greenlee (novel "The Spook Who Sat by the Door")
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete
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
Margaret Kromgols ... Old Woman
Tom Alderman ... Security Officer
Stephen Ferry ... Colonel
Kathy Berk ... Doris
Stephen Ferry II ... Boy Guardsman
Frank Lesley ... TV Commentator
Harold Johnson ... Jackson
Anthony Ray ... Shorty
Audrey Stevenson ... Mrs. Duncan
John Charles ... Stew
Ponciano Olayta Jr. ... Mr. Soo
Sidney Eden ... Instructor II
Colostine Boatwright ... Dancer
Johnny Williams ... Waiter
Cora Williams ... Woman I
Bobbie Gene Williams ... Woman II
Doug Johnson ... Trainee 1
Lenard Norris ... Trainee 2
Mark Williams ... Trainee 3
Walter Lowe ... Trainee 4
Robert Franklin ... Trainee 5
Harold Harris ... Trainee 6
Jim Heard ... Trainee 7
Kenneth Lee Orme ... Trainee 8
Don Greenlee ... Trainee 9
Johnnie Johnson III ... Cobra (as Johnnie Johnson)
Frank E. Ford ... Cobra
Maurice Wicks ... Cobra
Perry Thomas ... Cobra
Clinton Malcome ... Cobra
Orlanders Thomas ... Cobra
Larry Lawrence ... Cobra
Rodney McGrader ... Cobra
Tyrone R. Livingston ... Cobra (as Tyrone Livingston)
Ramon Livingston ... Cobra
James Mitchell ... Cobra
Virgie Johnson ... Cobra
Produced by
Ivan Dixon .... producer
Sam Greenlee .... producer
Thomas G. Neusom .... associate producer
Original Music by
Herbie Hancock
Cinematography by
Michel Hugo
Film Editing by
Michael Kahn
Thomas Penick
Art Direction by
A. Leslie Thomas (as Leslie Thomas)
Set Decoration by
Cheryal Kearney
Sound Department
John Speak .... sound mixer
Special Effects by
Logan Frazee .... special effects
Stunts
Charlie Picerni .... stunt coordinator
Charlie Picerni .... stunts
Ernest Robinson .... stunt gaffer (as Ernie Robinson)
Camera and Electrical Department
Angelo Dellutri .... camera operator
Lloyd Isbell .... key grip
Ralph McCarthy .... gaffer
Eugene Simpson .... best boy
Eddie Willis .... dolly grip
Casting Department
Cassius Weathersby .... casting assistant
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Henry Salley .... wardrobe
Other crew
R.J. Louis .... production coordinator
Jerry Whittington .... location projectionist: Dailies
Thanks
Richard Hatcher .... the producers are grateful to (as Mayor Richard G. Hatcher)
- Sinopsis
Underground classic. Amazing, experimental soundtrack by Herbie Hancock and super-weird conspiracy theory-style plot with a superb lead performance. Gripping and essential.
Dan Freeman, a Korea vet, is looking for work. The CIA have just announced that they are taking applications from black candidates - thinking that none will pass their tests - so Freeman plays the system and gets through. Freeman, the perfect employee, expects to get ahead but instead finds that he's reduced to performing menial tasks. After five years of frustration, he quits and moves to Chicago where his views begin to change: he moves from pacifism to militarism, convinced that direct action is the only answer. Using techniques and tools learnt in the CIA, he trains a private army of brothers and begins his campaign...
http://www.blaxploitation.com/m_37.html
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- The Spook Who Sat By the Door (1973)
Cynthia Fuchs.
Freedom Dues
If we’re gonna be outsiders, man, take advantage of being outside. If you wanna be a rich ho, then go to Hollywood. If you wanna say something true about black people, then do what we did. Raise the money from the black community and shoot what you want.
—Sam Greenlee, “One on One”
Yes, they do make good athletes.
—General (Byron Morrow), The Spook Who Sat By the Door
“The bling blings are looking for a white audience,” says Sam Greenlee in an interview included on Monarch’s DVD of The Spook Who Sat By the Door. “My audience is not white.” Comparing his own experience with today’s hiphoppish excesses, Greenlee is understandably skeptical of commercial processes. Writer of the 1966 novel on which Ivan Dixon’s 1973 film is based, Greenlee’s frustrations with history between then and now are palpable.
The Spook Who Sat By the Door remains one of the few uncompromised representations of black armed resistance in the United States. Dewayne Wickham, USA Today columnist, provides context in the DVD’s introduction to the film: “It was a story of aggressive reaction to white oppression.” On its initial release, the film garnered mixed responses. Whereas, according Wickham, “There was violent reaction in some parts of white America,” for many black viewers, it was a wakeup call. Theaters in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Oakland sold out for the three weeks the film was in release. Greenlee and Dixon contend that the FBI pressured the distributor to pull the film (in keeping with other tactics deployed the Bureau’s COINTELPRO [Counter Intelligence Program]).
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