A Soldier's Story Free
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Rating IMDb: 72
- Year: 1984
- Duration: 1:41
Summaries
An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.
A black soldier is killed while returning to his base in the deep south. The white people of the area are suspected at first. A tough black army attorney is brought in to find out the truth. We find out a bit more about the dead soldier in flashbacks - and that he was unpopular. Will the attorney find the killer ?
In 1944, officers and men were stateside, all busy demobbing, when a black Army sergeant is murdered in the fictitious town of Tynin, Louisiana. The whites want the problem to go away; some of the blacks blame the Klan. Until a hardass black investigator comes to demand answers, the facts are about as clear as the okra-laden bottom of one's favorite gumbo pot.
During World War 2, when the Army was still segregated by color and most black were not allowed into combat, they would remain in the US on bases waiting for the call to duty. And at one of these bases a black sergeant was returning to the base after going to a bar, is shot. An initial investigation concludes that the sergeant may have been killed by racists. Washington, sends a Captain who is a lawyer to investigate and the man is black. He begins by talking to the sergeant's men and learns the man was not liked by his men because he rode them very hard especially a guy named C.J. So was the sergeant killed by racists or did one of his men do it?
In the towm of Tynen, 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 black troops, Captain Davenport must battle with deceipt and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill Sergeant Waters.
