Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
Directed by John Ford
Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
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The opening (a match is struck in the darkness) is very trite, but the face that emerges belongs to Djimon Hounsou, the gifted column of muscle who lent Steven Spielberg's Amistad what Woody Strode lent John Ford's Sergeant Rutledge.
Tarantino’s quasi-novel twist—only quasi, because films such as Sergeant Rutledge exist—is to make the wandering Union veteran a black man: Samuel L. Jackson, in his deepest shrewdness and most towering fury.