Sergeant Rutledge (1960)





Respected Black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.


Books with substantial mentioning of Sergeant Rutledge

William Darby
John Ford's Westerns, A Thematic Analysis, with a Filmography
Jefferson, NC, 1996

Tag Gallagher
John Ford: The Man and His Films
Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1986

J.A. Place
The Western Films of John Ford
Secaucus, N.J., 1974

Books with an entry on Sergeant Rutledge

Herb Fagen
The encyclopedia of westerns
New York, 2003