Sergeant Rutledge (Captain Buffalo) (1960)

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Directed by

John Ford

Starring (View all)

Jeffrey Hunter
Lt. Tom Cantrell

Constance Towers
Mary Beecher

Billie Burke
Mrs. Cordelia Fosgate

Woody Strode
1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge

Juano Hernandez
Sgt. Matthew Luke Skidmore

Willis Bouchey
Col. Otis Fosgate

Carleton Young
Capt. Shattuck

Judson Pratt
Lt. Mulqueen

Written by

James Warner Bellah
(written by) and

Willis Goldbeck
(written by)

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Lieutenant Tom Cantrell is sent to defend Sergeant Braxton Rutledge, a Black cavalry soldier, on a charge of rape and murder. The story begins in a courtroom and it is told through flashbacks. This is a story of how a Black soldier in the face of danger from the Indians can be so easily mistaken for a criminal.

Release date: 25 May 1960

Tags: Western (5), Murder (3), Self Defense (3), Courtroom (3), Cavalry (3), Trial (2), Desertion (2), Prosecutor (2), Witness (2), 1960 (2), Honor (2), Loyalty (2), Soldier (2), Judge (2), Racism (2), Rape (2), Investigation (2), Friendship (2), Drama (1), Legal Drama (1)

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"This court-bound race drama is often overlooked within John Ford’s later period in favor of the self-consciously summative The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. But Sergeant Rutledge contains all of the elements that make Ford’s vision of the American West so remarkable, covering race in fierce terms in the midst the civil rights movement. He finds a hundred ways to frame Woody Strode, whose incredible cheekbones make him every bit the western archetype as Rutledge, a cavalryman accused of the r"