Sergeant Rutledge

Sergeant Rutledge

Infobox Film
name = Sergeant Rutledge


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director = John Ford
producer = Willis Goldbeck
Patrick Ford
writer = James Warner Bellah
Willis Goldbeck
narrator =
starring = Woody Strode
Jeffrey Hunter
music = Howard Jackson
Mack David (Song "Captain Buffalo")
Jeffrey Livingston (Song "Captain Buffalo")
cinematography = Bert Glennon
editing = Jack Murray
distributor = Warner Bros.
released = 1960
runtime = 111 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English
budget =
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amg_id = 1:114440
imdb_id = 0054292

"Sergeant Rutledge" is a 1960 film directed by John Ford, with Woody Strode in the title role. The film, controversial for its time, has Strode as a black sergeant in the United States Cavalry accused of the rape and murder of a white girl.

Plot

The film revolves around the court-martial in the later 1880's of 1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge, a "Buffalo Soldier" of the 9th U.S. Cavalry, [Ford's use of the 9th was an anachronism. At the time of the story, with Gen. Nelson A. Miles in command, the Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th U.S. Cavalry served in Arizona, not the 9th.] with Jeffrey Hunter as Lt. Tom Cantrell, Rutledge's troop officer and counsel for the defense. The story is told through flashback, expanding the testimony of witnesses as they describe the events following the murder of Rutledge's Commanding Officer, Major Dabney, and the rape and murder of Dabney's daughter, for which Rutledge is the accused.

Cast

*Jeffrey Hunter as 1st Lt. Tom Cantrell, 9th Cavalry (counsel for the defense)
*Constance Towers as Mary Beecher
*Billie Burke as Mrs. Cordelia Fosgate
*Woody Strode as First Sergeant Braxton Rutledge, 9th Cavalry
*Juano Hernández as Sgt. Matthew Luke Skidmore, 9th Cavalry
*Willis Bouchey as Lt. Col. Otis Fosgate, 9th Cavalry (president of the court-martial)
*Carleton Young as Capt. Shattuck, 14th Infantry (prosecutor)
*Judson Pratt as 2nd Lt. Mulqueen, 9th Cavalry (court-martial board member)

ee also

*Military history of African Americans
*Racism

References

External links

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