--- title: 'The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)' type: 'film' director: 'Ivan Dixon' released: '1973-01-01' runtime_minutes: 102 genres: - 'Thriller' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-spook-who-sat-by-the-door-1973' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070726/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973) 1973 · 102 min · Thriller · United States ## Synopsis 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. 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Ivan Dixon](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-dixon) - **Producer:** [Ivan Dixon](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-dixon), [Sam Greenlee](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-greenlee) - **Original Music Composer:** [Herbie Hancock](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbie-hancock) - **Director of Photography:** [Michel Hugo](https://cinepixo.com/people/michel-hugo) - **Editor:** [Michael Kahn](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-kahn) ## Cast - [Paula Kelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/paula-kelly) - [J. A. Preston](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-a-preston) - [Lawrence Cook](https://cinepixo.com/people/lawrence-cook) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-spook-who-sat-by-the-door-1973 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7766000); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.