Movie

A Soldier's Story

by Charles Fuller, Sergeant Waters, Adolph Caesar, Howard Rollins, Art Evans and 40 others

In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. A military lawyer, also a black man, is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful b

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Characters

Adolph Caesar (1)Charles Fuller (1)Sergeant Waters (1)

“You know the damage one ignorant Negro can do? We were in France in the first war; we'd won decorations. But the white boys had told all them French gals that we had tails. Then they found this ignorant colored soldier, paid him to tie a tail to his ass and run around half-naked, making monkey sound…”

— Charles Fuller, Sergeant Waters, Adolph Caesar, imdb.com

Tagged: Best Military Movies, negro, racism, Monkey