Retrospective 2014

Sergeant Rutledge

John Ford
USA 1960
111 min
V'14

The first Western with an Afro-American as protagonist pursues in the shape of a court drama the case of Sergeant Rutledge, head of an Afro-American cavalry regiment, who is accused of raping and killing a white woman. Even with small gestures Ford exposes the deep-rooted racism of the white settlers and reveals it as a fatal mixture of fright and disdain.

Credits
  • Juano Hernandez - Wesley Park
  • Constance Towers
  • Willis Bouchey
  • Woody Strode
  • Jeffrey Hunter
  • Billie Burke
  • James Warner Bellah
  • Willis Goldbeck
  • Bert Glennon
  • M.A. Merrick
  • Jack Murray
  • Howard Jackson
  • Eddie Imazu
  • Marjorie Best
Warner Bros.
35 mm
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