THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR A film so far ahead of its time we still haven’t caught up. A flailing politician shames the Civil Rights era CIA into hiring Black agents, which brings them more than they bargained for in Lawrence Cook. Cook’s cool customer soon tires of the agency’s bullshit and takes his training to Chicago to form an underground guerilla army. Undersung Black actor Ivan Dixon directs. An American The Battle of Algiers. – Lee Gardner
