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Sergeant Rutledge (1960) | User Rating
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Running Time
1 hour, 51 minutes
Country USA
Studio Warner Brothers
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Other Titles
• Sergeant Rutledge
• Captain Buffalo
• Mit einem Fuß in der Hölle (1961)
• Der Schwarze Sergeant (1961)
• The Trial of Sergeant Rutledge
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Genre: Crime, Western, Murder, Courtroom, Military, Society, Suspense, Investigation
Tagline: You knew all along that love had nothing to do with it ...
Plot: John Ford's courtroom drama, his only film featuring a black person in a central role, stars Woody Strode as Sgt. Braxton Rutledge, a buffalo soldier accused of murder on an Arizona cavalry post in the 1880s. In an atmosphere charged with racism, Lt. Tom Cantrell (Jeffrey Hunter) is to defend Rutledge against the accusation that he raped a young woman and murdered her and her father, an officer. Under the questioning of prosecutor Captain Shattuck (Carleton Young), Mary Beecher (Constance Towers) reveals that on the day of the murders Rutledge had earlier saved her life when she was attacked by Mescalero Indians. But Cordelia Fosgate (Billie Burke), the judge's dithering wife, claims to have seen Rutledge emerge from the victims' quarters after hearing gunfire. For Strode, a member of Ford's stock company, this was his first leading role and perhaps the best of his career. A gifted athlete, he was one of the first two African American players to break into the NFL in 1946. Of this film, he has said, ''I've never gotten over SERGEANT RUTLEDGE. It had dignity. John Ford put classic words in my mouth . . . You never seen a Negro come off a mountain like John Wayne before. I had the greatest Glory Hallelujah ride across the Pecos River that any black man ever had on the screen. And
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| Directed by |
John Ford
The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man |
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| Written by |
| Willis Goldbeck
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Colossus of New York, Peter Pan |
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| Cast |
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The Wizard of Oz, Father of the Bride, Dinner at Eight | Woody Strode
Once Upon a Time in the West, Spartacus, The Quick and the Dead | | Willis Bouchey
From Here to Eternity, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Them! | Carleton Young
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Horse Soldiers | |
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