Gordon's War

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Gordon's War

R,

1973,

1h 29m,

Action

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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.

Derek Adams

Time Out

Jun 24, 2006

Raised out of the ordinary by an ingenious safe raid, an above-average car chase, and some nice location work.

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Howard Thompson

New York Times

May 9, 2005

The picture is inconclusive, far from profound, and the urgency of the theme has been overly simplified to fit the action.

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Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

Jan 1, 2000

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.

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Gregory Mims

New Pittsburgh Courier

Dec 13, 2021

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.

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Alis Loewell

Los Angeles Free Press

Dec 31, 2019

Replete with a final chase scene that's the best I've seen since The French Connection.

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Poe P

Jul 26, 2015

Good premise, but ultimately disappointing.

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Ossie Davis

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Paul Winfield

Gordon Hudson

Carl Lee

Bee Bishop

David Downing

Otis Russell

Tony King

Roy Green

Gilbert Lewis

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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
Producer: Robert Schaffel
Screenwriter: Howard Friedlander, Ed Spielman
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox, Palomar Pictures International
Rating: R
Genre: Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 9, 1973, Limited
Release Date (DVD): Jun 14, 2005
Runtime: 1h 29m

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