A Soldier's Play (2021)
In a segregated army camp in Louisiana in 1944, a black sergeant is shot dead after crying out "they still hate you." As the play examines the murder, the truth of it becomes more shocking and hateful than the murder itself.
- Date of release
- 2021-02-25
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Director
- Kenny Leon
Casting
- David Alan Grier — Sergeant Vernon C. Waters
- Blair Underwood — Captain Richard Davenport
- Nnamdi Asomugha — Private First Class Melvin Peterson
- Jerry O'Connell — Captain Charles Taylor
- Rob Demery — Corporal Bernard Cobb
- Warner Miller — Corporal Ellis
- McKinley Belcher III — Private Louis Henson
- Billy Eugene Jones — Private James Wilkie
- Jared Grimes — Private Tony Smalls
- J. Alphonse Nicholson — Private C.J. Memphis
- Nate Mann — Lietuenant Byrd
- Lee Aaron Rosen — Captain Wilcox
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