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A Soldier's Story (1984)
Directed by Norman Jewison
“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.”
Mystery, Crime, Drama · 1h 41m
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.
Cast
Howard Rollins
Captain Davenport
Adolph Caesar
Sergeant Waters
Art Evans
Private Wilkie
Robert Townsend
Corporal Ellis
Denzel Washington
Private First Class Peterson
David Alan Grier
Corporal Cobb
David Harris
Private Smalls
Dennis Lipscomb
Captain Taylor
Patti LaBelle
Big Mary
Wings Hauser
Lieutenant Byrd
Larry Riley
C.J. Memphis
William Allen Young
Private Henson
Crew
- Director
- Norman Jewison
- Screenplay
- Charles Fuller
- Director of Photography
- Russell Boyd
- Original Music Composer
- Herbie Hancock
- Editor
- Mark Warner, Caroline Biggerstaff
- Producer
- Norman Jewison, Ronald L. Schwary, Patrick J. Palmer
Details
- Release date
- 1984-09-14
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Mystery, Crime, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Caldix, Columbia Pictures
- Budget
- $6,000,000
- Box office
- $21,821,347