A Soldier's Story
1984 · 101 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 11,855 VOTES · DIR. Norman Jewison
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,224 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:03 Look here, boy, I want you out.
00:07:33 Captain Davenport?
00:11:52 ...and be a credit to your race.
00:15:32 I like these. They're like MacArthur's.
00:18:57 No, sir.
00:22:11 It could've been because CJ was the best ballplayer on the team.
00:25:40 Let him rub elbows with the whites.
00:28:43 Yes, sir. I played shortstop.
00:33:07 I hear tell they're on the verge of gettin' all of us together.
00:36:21 Because whatever an ignorant, low-class Geechee like you has to say...
00:39:05 That's fine, Memphis.
00:42:10 Get up, Sarge!
00:47:25 Look, hotshot.
00:51:04 Yeah, the colonel, Major Hines and four other white officers.
00:56:08 Then the shootin' went down.
00:58:46 Makes me feel bad just to see a gun.
01:01:44 But it's hard to say.
01:05:49 Come on, homey!
01:09:40 We lost our last game.
01:12:45 I killed no one.
01:15:31 Coloured people aren't that devious. Hell, we hadn't lost a game for two years.
01:18:17 Then this coloured champion lets those same white boys call him...
01:22:42 Private Wilkie is under arrest. Take him to the stockade.
01:27:50 See, you got to be like them.
Cast & Characters
Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Captain Davenport
Adolph Caesar
Sergeant Waters
Art Evans
Private Wilkie
David Alan Grier
Corporal Cobb
David Harris
Private Smalls
Dennis Lipscomb
Captain Taylor
Larry Riley
C.J. Memphis
Robert Townsend
Corporal Ellis
Denzel Washington
Private First Class Peterson
William Allen Young
Private Henson
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,224
Dialogue density12.1 lines / min
First line00:01:03
Final line01:27:50
Production Record
DirectorNorman Jewison
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6,000,000
Revenue$21,821,347
IMDb votes11,855