Gordon's War (1973)
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56% of users liked it
(67 ratings)
In this incredibly violent actioner, a soldier returns from the war in Vietnam and finds that his Harlem neighborhood has become a drug-filled war zone of its own. The final straw comes when his wife overdoses. The grief-stricken vet quickly assembles a group of vigilantes to clean up the streets… More In this incredibly violent actioner, a soldier returns from the war in Vietnam and finds that his Harlem neighborhood has become a drug-filled war zone of its own. The final straw comes when his wife overdoses. The grief-stricken vet quickly assembles a group of vigilantes to clean up the streets and exact vengeance upon the drug dealers who sold his wife the bad stuff. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Ossie Davis
- Genres
- Action & Adventure
R,
- In Theaters
- Aug 9, 1973 Wide
Critic Reviews
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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.
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, New York Times
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
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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Cast
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David Downing
as Otis
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Grace Jones
as Mary
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Tony King
as Roy
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Gilbert Lewis
as Spanish Harry
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Hansford Rowe
as Dog Salesman
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Adam Wade
as Hustler
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Ralph Wilcox
as Black Hit Man
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Paul Winfield
as Gordon
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Carl Lee
as Bee
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Jackie Page
as Bedroom Girl
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Charles Bergansky
as Caucasian
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Carl Gordon
as Luther
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Nathan C. Heard
as Big Pink
- John Henry Redwood
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David Connell
as Hotel Proprietor
