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Showing posts with label Harlem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harlem. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Gordon's War (1973)


























Starring: 

Storyline
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.

Link to soundtrack review
Badder Than Evil - Gordon's War's (1973)

Saturday, June 18, 2011

The Black Godfather (1974)














































Starring:


Storyline
J.J. (Rod Perry) is a hustler with a conscience. A small-time numbers runner who dabbles in prostitution, J.J. wants nothing to do with the drug trade, which he holds responsible for the continuing slavery of the Black man. After a violent confrontation with mobster Tony Burton (Don Chastain) leaves a friend dead, J.J. becomes the ally of local numbers king Nate Williams (Jimmy Witherspoon), who teaches him how to dismantle Burton's drug operation brick by brick. But Burton has a secret weapon: Detective Jo Sterling (Duncan McLeod), a crooked cop who's got dirt on all the syndicates, is now Burton's lap dog.