3471meb@hou2g.UUCP (M.BYRD) (10/12/84)
I would like to submit my comments on this adaptation of Charles Fuller's
Pulitzer Prize Winning "A Soldier's Play". After seeing the play,
off Broadway, at the Negro Ensemble Company Theater in the summer of
'82, I wasn't sure about a movie version. To my surprise,I was
filled with the same emotion that I felt the first time I
experienced this work! For those of you who aren't familiar with
the story line, I'll give you a briefing. The setting is 1944 at an
Army base in Louisiana. A Black Sargeant is killed mysteriously and
the movie is about the investigation of his murder. The
investigation is carried out by a Black Capt.(Howard
Rollins,remember "Ragtime") who seeks to find the murderer. As he probes
into the death, he uncovers many facts about the emotional struggles
between the Sargeant and his men.
Back to my comments-I loved it!! Anyone seeing it will learn from
it! For any other Charles Fuller fans, if you liked this one, read
"Zooman and the Sign".
Michelle E Byrd
AT&T Bell Labs
West Long Branch, NJ