Based on the explosive 1969 novel by Sam Greenlee, who cowrote the screenplay, director Ivan Dixon’s pull-no-punches adaptation follows the CIA’s first Black agent—recruited as part of a Potemkin integration policy—from the halls of power to the streets of Chicago, where he uses the agency’s own training to foment a violent Black revolution. For his part, Dixon shot the film guerrilla-style, deploying the action tropes of Blaxploitation to revolutionary ends, using their camera as a weapon in the ongoing cultural war of self-representation.

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