Jeffrey Hunter
Lt. Tom Cantrell
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- 1960 · Western · 1h 47m
Sergeant Rutledge is a 1960 American Technicolor Western film directed by John Ford and starring Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Woody Strode and Billie Burke. [1] The title was also used for the novelization published in the same year. [2]
Sergeant Rutledge: Directed by John Ford. With Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Billie Burke, Woody Strode. Respected Black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
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- Crime, Drama, Western
- John Ford
- 1960-05-25
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the 1960 western film Sergeant Rutledge, directed by John Ford. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers, and more on IMDb.
Army lawyer Tom Cantrell (Jeffrey Hunter) defends the accused, African-American sergeant Braxton Rutledge (Woody Strode), a soldier who had once been under his command.
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- Jeffrey Hunter
- John Ford
- Western
Jun 14, 2021 · A review of John Ford's 1960 film Sergeant Rutledge, a Western that challenges the myth of the west and portrays a black U.S. Calvary sergeant wrongly accused of murder and rape. The review praises the film's complexity, emotional depth, and humanism, but criticizes its overwrought ending.
Lt. Tom Cantrell defends his First Sergeant, Braxton Rutledge, at a court-martial where the African-American NCO is accused of raping and strangling Lucy Dabney and killing her father, Major Dabney.
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