A SOLDIER'S STORY
Howard
E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans,
Denzel
Washington, Larry Riley, David Alan Grier, Patti LaBelle
Columbia
Pictures; Directed by Norman Jewison
Rated
PG; 102 minutes; 1984
An intense, exhilarating suspenseful
movie that is, on the surface, an investigation into a murder, but underneath
that, it is an investigation into the heart-wrenching and familiar question of
how a black man lives in a white society. A SOLDIER'S STORY was scripted by
Charles Fuller from his Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play and stars some of
the original Broadway cast.