Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
Directed by
John Ford
Written by
James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck
Fred Libby
Chandler Hubble (uncredited)
Walter Reed
Capt. McAfee (uncredited)
Chuck Hayward
Capt. Dickinson (uncredited)
Constance Towers
Mary Beecher
William Wellman Jr.
Court Guard (uncredited)
Sheb Wooley
Screaming Trooper (archive sound) (uncredited)
Carleton Young
Capt. Shattuck - prosecutor
Woody Strode
1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge
Rafer Johnson
Cpl. Krump (uncredited)
Jeffrey Hunter
Lt. Tom Cantrell
Judson Pratt
Lt. Mulqueen (court-martial board member)
Willis Bouchey
Col. Otis Fosgate - president of the court-martial