Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.
- world war ii
- louisiana
- dead soldier
- based on play or musical
- racist
- flashback
- revenge
- boot camp
- blunt
- taunting
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Howard Rollins
Captain Davenport
Adolph Caesar
Sergeant Waters
Art Evans
Private Wilkie
Robert Townsend
Corporal Ellis
- Denzel Washington — Private First Class Peterson
- David Alan Grier — Corporal Cobb
- David Harris — Private Smalls
- Dennis Lipscomb — Captain Taylor
- Patti LaBelle — Big Mary
- Wings Hauser — Lieutenant Byrd
- Larry Riley — C.J. Memphis
- William Allen Young — Private Henson
- Scott Paulin — Captain Wilcox
- John Hancock — Sergeant Washington
- Robert Tyler — Private Seymour
- Directed
- Norman Jewison
- Written
- Charles Fuller
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 210 ratings
- Studio
- Caldix, Columbia Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
