Rod Steiger
MSgt. Albert Callan
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The Sergeant is a 1968 American drama film directed by John Flynn and starring Rod Steiger and John Phillip Law. It was released by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
Set in a post-war Paris is the sergeant in question, one who has high standards and he believes, high morals. When he takes over a new set of men, they're sloppy, of low morale and in his eyes, weak and lazy. He is naturally drawn to a young private, played by John Philip Law.
Much more like a modern documentary drama set against a “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the army than a piece of Hollywood fiction more than half a century old. Watch it! Another ...
Although the role is not one for which Academy Award® winning actor Rod Steiger is widely remembered forty years later, his star turn as The Sergeant (1968) crystallizes the range of his performances over the course of a long and varied career.
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THE SERGEANT is the story of the dark inner struggle of Master Sergeant Albert Callan to overcome the overwhelming attraction he feels for one of his charges. In the staid and stifling environment of a post-World War II army post in France, Callan's deeply repressed attraction to other men surfaces when he encounters handsome Private Swanson.
May 12, 2017 · The Sergeant, poor cow of a movie, never had a chance. The critics of 1968 – faced with Rod Steiger’s miserable Army lifer, Sergeant Callan, pursuing John Phillip Law’s dewy-eyed Private Swanson on a godforsaken supply post in 1952 France, and then killing himself – were unanimous in panning it.
