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Bill Gunn
Writer 1934 - 1989

Bill Gunn

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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... Read full bio →

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2 titles
Ganja & Hess

Ganja & Hess

Bill Gunn 1973 1h 53m 5.0

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

The Landlord

The Landlord

Hal Ashby 1970 1h 52m 8.0

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat.

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