Dixon launches the film with a satirical tone-mocking white officials who'd rather not integrate the agency-and sharpens it to an edge of restrained precision, aided by Cook's highly pressurized performance.

It is such a mixture of passion, humor, hindsight, prophecy, prejudice and reaction that the fact that it's not a very well-made movie, and is seldom convincing as melodrama, is almost beside the point.

Possibly the most radical of the blaxploitation films of the 70s, this movie was an overnight success when released in 1973, then was abruptly taken out of distribution for reasons still not entirely clear.

If you are interested in watching a film that likely influenced films like “Black Panther” (2018) or “BlacKkKlansman” (2018) or just to see a film that was considered so radical, it was almost impossible to find, then you have two weeks to see it