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A Soldier's Story (1984)
Tagline:
Alone, far from home, and far from justice, he has three days to learn the truth about a murder... and the truth is a story you won't forget.
Directed by
Norman Jewison
Plot description:
Combining mystery, history, sociology and inquiry into the psychopathology of hatred and the poison of accommodation to injustice, Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning ''Soldier's Play'' has been translated to the screen under the title ''A Soldier's Story.'' The story takes place during World War II, at an Army base in Louisiana, where Vernon Waters, a black platoon sergeant, has been shot to death with a .45 caliber automatic while returning drunk to the base one night.
Much to the astonishment of not only the black troops in the platoon but the white officers on the base as well, a black captain - a lawyer, in fact - is dispatched from Washington in an effort to find the killer. Ku Klux Klan, suggest some of the troops. White officers, suggests a captain commanding Sergeant Waters's company. None of your business, suggests the Southern colonel who commands the base. ''The worst thing you can do in this part of the country,'' he says, ''is to pay too much attention to the death of a colored soldier under mysterious circumstances.''
But Capt. Richard Davenport, played by Howard E. Rollins Jr., is determined to press on. [source: Laawrence van Gelder, New York Times]
Cast:
Howard E. Rollins Jr. | .... | Capt. Davenport | |
Adolph Caesar | .... | Sgt. Waters | |
Art Evans | .... | Pvt. Wilkie | |
David Alan Grier | .... | Cpl. Cobb | |
David Harris | .... | Pvt. Smalls | |
Dennis Lipscomb | .... | Capt. Taylor | |
Larry Riley | .... | C.J. Memphis | |
Robert Townsend | .... | Cpl. Ellis | |
Denzel Washington | .... | Pfc. Peterson | |
William Allen Young | .... | Pvt. Henson | |
Patti LaBelle | .... | Big Mary | |
Wings Hauser | .... | Lt. Byrd | |
Scott Paulin | .... | Capt. Wilcox | |
John Hancock | .... | Sgt. Washington | |
Trey Wilson | .... | Col. Nivens | |
Patricia Brandkamp | .... | Ida Nivens | |
Carl Dreher | .... | Bus driver | |
Vaughn Reeves | .... | Capt. Estes | |
Robert Tyler | .... | Pvt. Seymour | |
Pat Grabe | .... | White lieutenant #1 | |
Terry Dodd | .... | White lieutenant #2 | |
Warren Clements | .... | Sgt. Hooks | |
James W. Bryant | .... | Chaplain | |
John Valentine | .... | Umpire | |
Ronald E. Greenfield | .... | MP sergeant | |
Anthony C. Sanders | .... | MP | |
Traftin E. Thompson | .... | MP in barracks | |
Roy Wells | .... | Training field sergeant | |
Tommy G. Liggins | .... | Soldier painting | |
Calvin Franklin | .... | Barracks soldier | |
Kevin T. Mosley | .... | Barracks soldier | |
Michael Williams | .... | Barracks soldier | |
David Ashley | .... | Barracks soldier | |
Thomas Howard | .... | Barracks soldier | |
Bobby McGee | .... | Barracks soldier (as Bobby McGaughey) | |
Rick Ramey | .... | Barracks soldier | |
Lacarnist Hiriams | .... | Barracks soldier |