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An Army lawyer, a captain, is sent from Washington to handle the investigation, and he turns out to be black, too -- the first black officer anyone in the movie has ever seen. Movie Reviews TV/Streaming
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A meticulously-crafted murder mystery with incisive observations about race in America, A Soldier's Story benefits from a roundly excellent ensemble and Charles Fuller's politically urgent...
- (21)
- Norman Jewison
- PG
- Howard E. Rollins Jr.
In A Soldier's Story (1984), when Sergeant Vernon Waters is found murdered on a Louisiana army base, Captain Davenport is sent to investigate. As Davenport i...
- 2 min
- 315
- The Official Roger Ebert
A Soldier's Story is a moving piece of human drama that not only draws the viewer into the interior life of the characters -- the task of the dramatist -- but makes him work as well. Full...
- Synopsis
- Picture 8/10
- Audio 7/10
- Extras 7/10
- Closing
The murder of a black sergeant on a segregated army base in Louisiana in 1944 is investigated by a black soldier and lawyer, revealing deep-seated racism in the Deep South. Adapted from Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (for Adolph Caesar), and Best Ada...
Indicator presents Norman Jewison’s A Soldier’s Story to Blu-ray, presenting the film in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on a dual-layer disc. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation is sourced from a 2K remaster provided by Sony. The disc is locked to region B. The presentation looks fine enough and doesn’t present any severe issues, but t...
The film comes with a linear PCM 2.0 stereo surround soundtrack. Dialogue is clear and the overall audio is clean. The film’s score is a little odd (I’d almost call it a television score to be honest) but has some decent power behind it. The mix is limited, with some noticeable panning between the fronts, but that’s about the extent of it.
The film has seen a few home video releases, though only Sony’s original DVD edition in North America offered any special features. Indicator’s edition carries all of that content over, starting with an audio commentaryfeaturing director Norman Jewison. Overall it’s a fairly average track, though Jewison does detail some of the things he had to wor...
It’s an average release, with a decent set of extras and an above-average presentation. The booklet is probably the release’s strongest attribute. BUY AT:
Directed by Norman Jewison, A Soldier's Story is a gripping film that tells the story of an African-American captain and lawyer who is sent to the Deep South to investigate the murder of a sergeant. But the film does not just tell the story of the investigation; it also opens up a whole new state of affairs for the audience to see.
A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American mystery drama film [2] directed and produced by Norman Jewison, adapted by Charles Fuller from his Pulitzer Prize -winning A Soldier's Play. It is a murder mystery set in a segregated regiment of the U.S Army commanded by White officers and training in the Jim Crow South.
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