Sergeant Rutledge
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Search complete. 3 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Sergeant Rutledge".
Oct 13, 2026
Kristopher H. BilbreyHOST
It was used in...
Kristopher H. BilbreyHOST
Springfield Rifles, The Charge at Feather River, A Star is Born, Them, Land of the Pharaohs, The Sea Chase, Sergeant Rutledge, PT-109, The Green Berets, The Wild Bunch.
Kristopher H. BilbreyHOST
It was then used in Star Wars.
Kristopher H. BilbreyHOST
It was used in American Graffiti.
Mark NetterHOST
Well, he was there for like 10 minutes with the other two guys who were also from old movies.
Mark NetterHOST
But John Ford made a movie called Sergeant Rutledge, where he was the title character.
Mark NetterHOST
The protagonist is really the lawyer defending Sergeant Rutledge.
Mark NetterHOST
But at the time, it was considered in the early 1960s kind of advanced to be doing a movie about race in the military.
Mark NetterHOST
So I'm kind of acceding to your point that, yes, I don't know that Scorsese's made any black guy a star, but certainly even John Ford did.