A Soldier's Story is a 1984 drama film directed by Norman Jewison, based upon Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize winning Off Broadway production, A Soldier's Play. It is a story about racism and segregation in a black army regiment with white officers deep in the Jim Crow South. A black officer investigates a murder of a black non-commissioned officer on an army base in Louisiana near the end of World War II, a time and place where no one had ever s...
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A Soldier's Story is a 1984 drama film directed by Norman Jewison, based upon Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize winning Off Broadway production, A Soldier's Play. It is a story about racism and segregation in a black army regiment with white officers deep in the Jim Crow South. A black officer investigates a murder of a black non-commissioned officer on an army base in Louisiana near the end of World War II, a time and place where no one had ever seen a black officer. Starting with a tiny but pithy clue of the sergeant's last moments and last words, the movie is a powerful thriller and historical drama.
A Soldier's Story was shot entirely in Arkansas. The "Tynin" exterior scenes were shot in three days in Clarendon. The baseball sequence was filmed in Little Rock at the historic Lamar Porter Field; Governor Bill Clinton had dropped by during the shooting. He became very enthused about the project and later helped by availing the Arkansas Army National Guard in full regalia for a grand...
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