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Gordon's War [VHS]

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This is one the best movies of the blaxploitation era, which strangely, didn't acquired the cult status that SUPERFLY, SHAFT & COFFY enjoy today. This movie has a great cast: a very young Paul Winfield(Gordon), Carl Lee ( Bee; who also played "Eddie" in SUPERFLY ), Gilbert Lewis ( Spanish Harry ) and a cameo role by a then very young unknown Grace Jones ( Mary ). The plot is catching: Gordon, a green beret vet from the Vietnam war returns home to find that out that his wife died victim of drugs. From that moment on, Gordon starts a war against all the pushers & drug dealers to get the dope out of Harlem. He recruits a few friends to help him stage this bloody battle against, mainly, Spanish Harry, the Big Shot of Harlem! The movie is fast paced with plenty of action and clever(70s) dialogue. Also the soundtrack is wonderful too. Songs like "Child Of Tomorrow", a beautiful sad ballad sung with deep soulness by Barbara Mason & "Come On And Dream Some Paradise",great funky music by New Birth, contributes as much to the plot as the visuals of the movie. This is an action movie with a message and a heart! I almost cried the first time I saw the ending of this movie back in 1973. I wish someone can make the soundtrack of this movie available again! Trust me on this one: GET THIS MOVIE!

great film sad ending but well done, as usual paul winfield does a good turn, and superfly's buddy makes one of his rare appearnces, typical revenge flick, army dude comes home from viet nam finds his girl dead, from heroin, seeks revenge on all the pushers who killed her, great motorcycle chase scene one of the better films in the genre

Paul Winfield through this movie reflected the Black Consciousness Movement in America in the early 1970's. A clip of a wall sprayed with "Free Huey: Power to the people" is just a taste of it. Gordon's war against the pushers reflected the Black Panthers and other groups crusade against the Heroin epidemic that was raging in Harlem and other poor Black neighborhoods at the time.

I loved this movie. The dope scene seemed real as can be. Good action. Must see. Highly recommended... Ossie Davis was a brilliant man...

Why I forgot about this movie; this is probably one of the few movies of that era that my father took me to see; sadly, I forgot about watching it, but thank you [...] for hipping me to it.

Gordon's War is an awesome flick! I've been a movie buff since the 1980's and have enjoyed countless films. However, I was suprised to find such a great movie after so many years. The story is a common one, Courageous Vietnam Vet returns to find his old girlfriend killed by drugs, and his community and neighborhood in dissaray. He forms a band of brothers all hell bent on restoring sanity to their community. After confronting many Drug Dealers and thugs, the main character Gordon develops a persona of respectable manliness. His band of brothers are pretty cool guys too. This movie has great old scenes of Harlem, NY during the 1970's. Cool music as well!

I never saw Gordon's War when it came out, but remember the trailers in the movie theatres. Somehow I thought this would be a good movie to buy, and except for watching a young Paul Winfield and probably the first exposure of Grace Jones...THIS MOVIE SUCKS! It is obviously an money making effort by those who made countless other BLAXPLOITATION movies