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Cast. Jeffrey Hunter as 1st Lt. Tom Cantrell, 9th Cavalry (counsel for the defense). Hunter's role in Sergeant Rutledge was the last of his three roles in films directed by Ford. He was previously cast in The Searchers and The Last Hurrah. Constance Towers as Mary Beecher. Towers had also been cast in Ford's previous film, The Horse Soldiers.
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
Sergeant Rutledge (1960) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
James Warner Bellah. Willis Goldbeck. Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
A respected black soldier who is on trial for a rape-murder in post-Civil War Arizona escapes during an Indian raid, but returns to the compound to warn his fellow cavalrymen of an impending attack...
- John Ford
11 reels. In the summer of 1881, a young woman named Lucy Dabney and her father, Maj. Dabney, are found dead in their quarters at Fort Linton in the Arizona Territory. Lt. Tom Cantrell arrives at the U.S. Army's southwestern headquarters to defend the accused, a black sergeant named Braxton Rutledge, who served bravely under Cantrell in the ...
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Sergeant Rutledge is a 1960 American Technicolor Western film directed by John Ford and starring Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Woody Strode and Billie Burke. The title was also used for the novelization published in the same year.
