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Gordon's War (1973)Four Vietnam Vets go to war against the drug dealers and pimps of Harlem. Director:Ossie Davis |
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Gordon Hudson
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Carl Lee | ... |
Bee Bishop
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Otis Russell
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Tony King | ... |
Roy Green
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Gilbert Lewis | ... |
Spanish Harry
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Carl Gordon | ... |
Luther the Pimp
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Nathan C. Heard | ... |
Big Pink
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Mary
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Jackie Page | ... |
Bedroom Girl
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Chuck Bergansky | ... |
Caucasian Killer
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Adam Wade | ... |
Hustler
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Dog Salesman
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Warren Taurien | ... |
Goose
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Ralph Wilcox | ... |
Black Hit Man
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David Connell | ... |
Hotel Proprieter
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A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose. Infuriated, he gathers three of his ex-GI buddies and they lay out plans to fight the drug dealers. Written by frankfob2@yahoo.com
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They said it would take an army to get the mob out of Harlem. This is the army! This is Gordon's war!Parents Guide:
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16 May 1974 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
A Guerra de um Homem See more »Company Credits
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As I sit hear listening to "Love Bug" by Tower of Power, I can't help but reflect on the similarly funky and action-packed score for this severely overlooked 70s action gem. I lost the album, which featured an angry Paul Winfield smashing a drug syringe (his shoe magnified to appear as big as one of those guns shoved into the foreground of any number of post-1990 crime thriller placards) but the band who "funked" the music to this movie was leagues ahead of Isaac Hayes. I say forego "Shaft" or even the 1,000,000 Fred Williamson offerings, and find this sucker...if you can. It's got extraordinary, "French Connection"-style locations, great performances, mean-spirited but cathartic violence, and action scenes (one including an escaping car with its rear axle tied down) ending with a crazy, high-speed motorcycle chase along the N.Y.C. docks that make watching some boring-ass Jim Brown "Slaughter" film or Billy Dee Williams in "Hit" appear as exciting as watching "Mrs. Doubtfire" with a room full of old people. I consider this and "Across 110th Street" as two of the genre's best. And don't forget, the best music to serenade a black Vietnam vet carrying a machine-gun yet.