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Hail, Hero! is a american film of genre Drama directed by David Miller released in USA on 4 october 1969 with Michael Douglas
Hail, Hero! (1969)
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Add to a movie listHail, Hero! is a 1969 film directed by David Miller, starring Michael Douglas, Deborah Winters and Peter Strauss. David Manber wrote the screenplay based on the novel by John Weston. The picture was produced by Harold D. Cohen and was the feature film debut for Douglas and for Peter Strauss.
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During the Vietnam War, college student Carl Dixon quits school and joins the Army in hopes of using love, not bullets, to combat the Viet Cong.Actors
Michael Douglas
(Carl Dixon)
Peter Strauss
(Frank Dixon)
John Arthur Kennedy
(Albert Dixon)
Teresa Wright
(Santha Dixon)
Deborah Winters
(Rebecca)
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