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No Way Back (1976)

No Way Back poster
Directed by
Fred Williamson
Genre
drama film, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
R
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A former police officer works odd jobs as a private detective. He gets pulled into a dangerous case involving a missing person.

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What happens

No Way Back is a 1976 blaxploitation film written and directed by Fred Williamson, who also stars as Jesse Crowder, a private detective who once used to belong to a police force, but that now finds himself taking odd jobs for a little extra money. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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