A Soldier's Story

A Soldier's Story is a war drama written by Charles Fuller and directed by Norman Jewison. The movie is based off the play A Soldier's Play and was released on February 28, 1985. The movie stars Howard E. Rollins, Jr. as Captain Davenport, who investigates the murder of a Sergeant Waters, played by Adolph Caesar. A Soldier's Story grossed $22,100,000 at the box office.http://www.allmovie.com/work/a-soldiers-story-45520

A Soldier's Story tells the story about a military base in Louisiana during World War II. The black soldiers were not sent to war, but were kept back to play baseball against teams from the other armed forces. Sergeant Waters, played by Adolph Caesar, is killed which brings Captain Davenport in to investigate the murder. Initially assuming that some white men killed Waters, it is quickly revealed that anyone, regardless of race had reason to kill Waters.

• Denzel Washington as Private First Class Peterson

• Adolph Caesar as Sergeant Waters

• Howard E. Rollins Jr. as Captain Davenport

• David Alan Grier as Corporal Cobb

• Robert Townsend as Corporal Ellis

• Dennis Lipscomb as Captain Charles Taylor

"Occasionally preachy, but otherwise intense and provocative racially provocative drama."—Dan Jardine, AllMovie.comhttp://www.allmovie.com/work/a-soldiers-story-45520/review

"Did this movie have to be so lockstep, so trapped by its mechanical plot, so limited by a murder mystery? What the movie has to say is so pale and limited that, ironically, the most interesting character in the movie is the victim..." —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Timeshttp://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19840101/REVIEWS/401010385/1023