Some Kind of Hero

Apr 2, 1982

1h 37m

★ 5.5

Richard Pryor is in a new kind of comedy... about some kind of hero... in some kind of mess.

Overview

A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Howard W. Koch Productions

Some Kind of Hero Trailers

Cast

Cpl. Eddie Keller / Ted Segal

Richard Pryor

Toni Donovan

Margot Kidder

Sgt. Vinnie DiAngelo

Ray Sharkey

Col. Powers

Ronny Cox

Lisa

Lynne Moody

Jesse

Olivia Cole

Leon

Paul Benjamin

The Kid

David Adams

Tank

Martin Azarow

Olivia

Shelly Batt

Jeanette

Susan Berlin

Lady Teller

Mary Betten

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.

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