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Gordon's War is a american film of genre Action directed by Ossie Davis released in USA on 9 august 1973 with Paul Winfield
Gordon's War (1973)
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Add to a movie listGordon's War is a 1973 action film written by Howard Friedlander and Ed Spielman, and directed by Ossie Davis. It stars Paul Winfield as Gordon Hudson.
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A Vietnam veteran returns home to find drug dealers and addicts now rule his old neighborhood, and that even his own wife has fallen victim to drugs. Together with three of his buddies from Vietnam, he fights back.Actors
Paul Winfield
(Gordon Hudson)
Carl Lee
(Bee Bishop)
David Downing
(Otis Russell)
Gilbert Lewis
(Spanish Harry)
Carl Gordon
(Luther the Pimp)
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