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Nov 2, 1984 · A Soldier's Story: Directed by Norman Jewison. With Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans, David Alan Grier. An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Norman Jewison
- 1984-11-02
A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American mystery drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison, adapted by Charles Fuller from his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play. It is a story about racism in a segregated regiment of the U.S Army commanded by White officers and training in the Jim Crow South, in a time and place where a Black officer ...
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A black Army investigator (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) travels to a remote military base in the heart of the Louisiana backwoods to look into the mysterious murder of a black sergeant toward the tail...
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- Norman Jewison
- PG
- Howard E. Rollins Jr.
An Army lawyer, a captain, is sent from Washington to handle the investigation, and he turns out to be black, too -- the first black officer anyone in the movie has ever seen. "A Soldier's Story" is one of those movies that's about less than you might think.
A Soldier's Story. When a sergeant of an all-black unit in Louisiana during WWII is murdered, an Army lawyer investigates if the crime was an act of extreme white bigotry or could the killer be a soldier in the victim's unit who all hated him for his harsh treatment. 3,077 IMDb 7.2 1 h 40 min 1984. X-Ray 18+.
Brief Synopsis. During World War II, an African-American officer investigates a murder that may have been racially motivated. Cast & Crew. Read More. Norman Jewison. Director. Howard E Rollins. Captain Richard Davenport. Adolph Caesar. Master Sergeant Vernon C Waters. Denzel Washington. Pfc Peterson. Dennis Lipscomb. Captain Taylor. Art Evans.
