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- Platoon was inspired by Stone's real-life experiences at the New Year's Day Battle of 1968, and the director himself makes a cameo during his cinematic recreation. Stone's film also has a familial connection to Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 war classic Apocalypse Now, which stars Charlie Sheen's father, Martin Sheen.
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Cadence: Directed by Martin Sheen. With Charlie Sheen, Jay Brazeau, Matt Clark, Tom McBeath. A young, fiercely independent Army Private is thrust into a work-camp stockade where he discovers the value of friendship and loyalty in the face of a dangerous enemy from a dynamic group of black prisoners.
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- Martin Sheen
- 1991-02-15
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Cadence is a 1990 American historical prison film directed by Martin Sheen, in which Charlie Sheen plays an inmate in a United States Army military prison in West Germany during the 1960s. Sheen plays alongside his father Martin Sheen and brother Ramon Estevez. The film is based on a novel by Gordon Weaver.
Both Martin Sheen and his son Charlie had starred in movies about the horrors of the Vietnam War. They later co-starred in a movie about the tough regimens faced by US troops on the verge of the war. Directed by the elder Sheen, "Cadence" stars the younger Sheen as a disobedient cadet on a US military base in 1965 Germany.
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Jan 18, 1991 · But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up against the insanely tyrannical and bigoted prison warden. Martin Sheen. Director, Writer. Gordon Weaver. Novel.
Martin Sheen's 1991 directorial debut features Sheen as the disturbed head of a military stockade where the prisoners include a troublemaking Army misfit played by his son Charlie, Private Bean (Charlie Sheen) is thrown into the stockade with a group of five blacks calling themselves the Soul Patrol, and gradually learns teamwork from the men ...
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As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up against the insanely tyrannical and bigoted prison warden. Cast. Crew.
