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Gordon's War (1973)

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Overview

Director:
Ossie Davis
Writers:
Howard Friedlander (writer)
Ed Spielman (writer)
Release Date:
16 May 1974 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Adventure more
Plot:
Four Vietnam Vets go to war against the drug dealers and pimps of Harlem. full summary | add synopsis
Plot Keywords:
Blaxploitation
User Comments:
Black Action At Its Finest! more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)
Paul Winfield ... Gordon Hudson
Carl Lee ... Bee Bishop

David Downing ... Otis Russell
Tony King ... Roy Green
Gilbert Lewis ... Spanish Harry
Carl Gordon ... Luther the Pimp
Nathan C. Heard ... Big Pink
Grace Jones ... Mary
Jackie Page ... Bedroom Girl
Chuck Bergansky ... Caucasian killer (as Charles Bergansky)
Adam Wade ... Hustler
Hansford Rowe ... Dog Salesman
Warren Taurien ... Goose
Ralph Wilcox ... Black hit man
David Connell ... Hotel Proprieter
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Additional Details

Runtime:
90 min | Germany:85 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (TVC)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA
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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Factual errors: Gordon's U.S. Army uniform has no name tag, no combat patch on his right shoulder, and his beret is tilted to the wrong side. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Toute une vie (1974) more
Soundtrack:
Come on and Dream Some Paradise more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Black Action At Its Finest!, 28 December 2000
Author: Aaron Stielstra (mcmarquez@mailcity.com) from Tucson, Arizona

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.

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