Bill Gunn
Also Known As: William Gunn
Biography: Bill Gunn was an American playwright, novelist, actor and film director. His 1973 cult classic horror film Ganja and Hess was chosen as one of ten best American films of the decade at the Cannes Film Festival, 1973. In the New Yorker, film critic Richard Brody described him as being “a visionary filmmaker left on the sidelines of the most ostensibly liberated period of American filmmaking.” His drama Johnnas won an Emmy award in 1972.
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 15, 1934
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 05, 1989
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Ganja & Hess
Overview: After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-20
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The Spy with My Face
Overview: Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-15
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Losing Ground
Overview: Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-02
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Crossroads
Overview: In Toronto, early twenty-somethings Judy Monroe and Roy Kirby are in love and are planning to get married. They understand the obstacles they are facing as husband and wife as Judy is white and Roy is black.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-25
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Personal Problems
Overview: An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-10
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The Sound and the Fury
Overview: Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-27
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Penelope
Overview: When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay much attention to her, so she robs his bank in disguise. After she confesses to her psychiatrist, Greg Mannix, he offers to return the money for her, as he is secretly in love with her. However, he abandons the money when the police approach. Penelope becomes determined to admit to the crime, but neither James nor the police believe her story.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-10
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Montgomery Clift
Overview: A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with family and friends, and rare archival material stretching back to his childhood. What develops is the story of an intense young boy who yearned for stardom, achieved notable success in such classic films as From Here to Eternity and I Confess, only to be ruined by alcohol addiction and his inability to face his own fears and homosexual desires. Montgomery Clift, as this film portrays him, may not have been a happy man but he never compromised his acting talents for Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Interns
Overview: During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-08
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