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      Gordon's War

      R Released Aug 9, 1973 1 hr. 29 min. Action List
      60% 5 Reviews Tomatometer 47% 50+ Ratings Audience Score When Army Green Beret Gordon (Paul Winfield) returns from Vietnam to Harlem in the early 1970s, he finds a different kind of war has been waged in his absence. Drug dealers and pimps have invaded his once-peaceful neighborhood, and their victims include his wife, now dead of an overdose. Reassembling his Army unit with fellow soldiers Bee (Carl Lee), Otis (David Downing) and Roy (Tony King), Gordon mounts a full-scale guerrilla war against the criminals and the businessmen behind them. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member One of the best blaxploitation movies of the 70s Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member A Vietnam vet takes the battle to the streets of Harlem after losing a loved one, waging a war on the drug pushers in his neighborhood. A really well-done action flick, well worth a look. Rental! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Good premise, but ultimately disappointing. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member (48%) A slightly gritty small budget 70's vigilante action flick that's pretty standard stuff. There's some fairly decent action, and a good car chase, but nothing to get too excited about. Perhaps the main draw now though is to get insight into the tough streets of Harlem from back in the early 70's. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review douglas g Once upon a time there were movies about Black men that defended their communities - this one about a group of Vietnam Vets that did that. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie kicked ass,bunch of vietnam vets decided to clean up Harlem in the 70's.Pimps and H dealers get fucked up.Hahaha this movie was awesome Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Derek Adams Time Out Raised out of the ordinary by an ingenious safe raid, an above-average car chase, and some nice location work. Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Howard Thompson New York Times The picture is inconclusive, far from profound, and the urgency of the theme has been overly simplified to fit the action. May 9, 2005 Full Review Dave Kehr Chicago Reader This totally unbelievable 1973 feature about black vigilantes out to break the Harlem drug traffic displays the same fatuous moral attitudinizing that mars most of the neofascist Fun City crime flicks of the period. Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Gregory Mims New Pittsburgh Courier Ossie Davies, perhaps the most underrated director in the entire Black film/stage community, has shown such remarkable restraint in the fashioning of this film, that its plausibility is rarely strained within its context. Dec 13, 2021 Full Review Alis Loewell Los Angeles Free Press Replete with a final chase scene that's the best I've seen since The French Connection. Dec 31, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis When Army Green Beret Gordon (Paul Winfield) returns from Vietnam to Harlem in the early 1970s, he finds a different kind of war has been waged in his absence. Drug dealers and pimps have invaded his once-peaceful neighborhood, and their victims include his wife, now dead of an overdose. Reassembling his Army unit with fellow soldiers Bee (Carl Lee), Otis (David Downing) and Roy (Tony King), Gordon mounts a full-scale guerrilla war against the criminals and the businessmen behind them.
      Director
      Ossie Davis
      Distributor
      20th Century Fox
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Action
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Aug 9, 1973, Limited
      Release Date (DVD)
      Jun 14, 2005