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Sergeant Rutledge is a 1960 film directed by John Ford, with Woody Strode in the title role. The film, controversial for its time, has Strode as a black sergeant in the United States Cavalry accused of the rape and murder of a white girl.

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The film revolves around the court-martial in the later 1880's of 1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge, a "Buffalo Soldier" of the 9th U.S. Cavalry,[1] with Jeffrey Hunter as Lt. Tom Cantrell, Rutledge's troop officer and counsel for the defense. The story is told through flashback, expanding the testimony of witnesses as they describe the events following the murder of Rutledge's Commanding Officer, Major Dabney, and the rape and murder of Dabney's daughter, for which Rutledge is the accused.


It was all right for Mr. Lincoln to say we was free. But that ain't so! Not yet! Maybe someday, but not yet!

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  • Jeffrey Hunter as 1st Lt. Tom Cantrell, 9th Cavalry (counsel for the defense)
  • Constance Towers as Mary Beecher
  • Billie Burke as Mrs. Cordelia Fosgate
  • Woody Strode as First Sergeant Braxton Rutledge, 9th Cavalry
  • Juano Hernndez as Sgt. Matthew Luke Skidmore, 9th Cavalry
  • Willis Bouchey as Lt. Col. Otis Fosgate, 9th Cavalry (president of the court-martial)
  • Carleton Young as Capt. Shattuck, 14th Infantry (prosecutor)
  • Judson Pratt as 2nd Lt. Mulqueen, 9th Cavalry (court-martial board member)