Sergeant Rutledge

Sergeant Rutledge

Sergeant Rutledge is a 1960 American Technicolor Western crime film starring Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode and Billie Burke. It was directed by John Ford and shot on location in Monument Valley, Utah. The film starred Strode as a black first sergeant in the United States Cavalry accused of the rape and murder of a white girl at a U.S. Army fort in the early 1880s. This was Billie Burke's final film role.

Genre: Crime, Western
Year:
1960
674 Views

[Rutledge enters the court room under guard and presents himself to the President of the Court-Martial]

1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge:
First Sergeant Braxton Rutledge, C Troop, Ninth United States Cavalry.

[the spectators erupt into bedlam. Sitting in the front seats, the officers' wives, especially Mrs. Fosgate, have been chattering constantly, and a crowd of men at the back begin shouting that Rutledge should be hanged, and so forth. Fosgate bangs his gavel repeatedly]

Lt. Tom Cantrell:
Mr. President!

Col. Otis Fosgate - president of the court-martial:
Order!

Lt. Tom Cantrell:
Mr. President! I request this court room be cleared of all spectators. This is not a public show. A soldier's on trial for his life before this court; and, furthermore, by the very nature of the charges alone, this is certainly no place for ladies.

[the ladies, especially Mrs. Fosgate, don't like that, and they begin chattering and protesting again]

Col. Otis Fosgate - president of the court-martial:
Request granted. [He glares at his wife] Dickinson, clear this court room of everyone not directly connected with this case!

[the crowd, mostly women in hats, resentfully rise and start exiting. Mary Beecher remains in her seat, looking disgruntled]

Mrs. Cordelia Fosgate:
Otis! Otis, tell this person you don't mean *me*.

[Dickinson takes her by the shoulder to escort her out]

Col. Otis Fosgate - president of the court-martial:
Out, Cordelia! Captain Dickinson, escort Mrs. Fosgate and her friends to the door.

Mrs. Cordelia Fosgate:
Otis Fosgate, wait till I get you home!

[Fosgate clears his throat and glances at the other Court Martial men, who are grinning at him]


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