Elaine Aiken,
Jack Aaron,
Kathy Berk,
Lawrence Cook,
Paula Kelly
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A flunkey black CIA man (reluctantly admitted in the first place), leaves the Agency to put his training to use in the covert indoctrination and organization of urban guerrila warfare units (made up o...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 27, 2004
Stats: 79 reviews
I took the message of self determination and exploiting the exploitative system to take skills and knowledge back to ones own community. Inspiring. Using counter terrorism tactics to teach the street gangs guerrilla warfare is just an example of this but it's handled well in the ...( read more)
A difficult film, both for someone to make in the 70's, and for a modern audience to swallow, but both Film and Novel take their subject matter seriously. This movie took guts.
The militant uprising themes are portrayed through character development, and by the end you are force...( read more)
Good movie with a virtually unknown cast. This movie deals with the topic of the first Black Man in the CIA and what he has to go through to get there. Not so far fetched of a movie now (since Barack Obama achieved the seemingly impossible) but for its time it was.
A testament to the legacy of Director Ivan ("Hogans Heroes") Dixon(RIP), the tough excellent & subversive novel on which it was based was vastly superior to this film version, largely due to budget constraints. In fact it is amazing this film was made at all. It was rumored for ...( read more)
Not some run of the mill 70's piece of trash. This is cinema at its finest. Well done enough that it seems just as pertinent today as it was back then. Speaks volumes if you have the right ears to listen.
Five stars for the sheer guts it took to make this movie in 1973. It starts with a program to recruit the first black CIA agent conducted as a ploy to boost votes for the incumbent president. The winning recruit spends the next few years in active duty making photocopies at the ...( read more)
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