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Alex Gordon (writer-producer)

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Alex Gordon was a film publicist who served in the British Army. After his discharge in 1947 he and his brother arrived in New York. He worked for theatres, performed press duties for
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and they collaborated on a script for a low-budget Western for John Carpenter,
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His last feature film credits were two Westerns directed by Bennett,
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Scheuer, P. K. (8 May 1958). "Gordon buys from gordons".
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Index

Alex Gordon (disambiguation)
film producer
American International Pictures
Day the World Ended
The She Creature
B-movie
Ed Wood
Jail Bait
Bride of the Monster
Richard Gordon
Gene Autry
Ed Wood
Samuel Z. Arkoff
American International Pictures
The Lawless Rider
Bride of the Monster
Jail Bait
American Releasing Company
American International Pictures
Lou Rusoff
Edward L. Cahn
Apache Woman
Roger Corman
Day the World Ended
The Oklahoma Woman
Girls in Prison
The She-Creature
Marla English
Tom Conway
Flesh and the Spur

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