{"id":35983,"date":"2024-06-16T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35983"},"modified":"2024-06-16T07:21:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T11:21:00","slug":"sergeant-rutledge-1960-starring-jeffrey-hunter-woody-strode-constance-towers-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35983","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sergeant Rutledge&#8221; (1960) starring Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode &amp; Constance Towers \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z061624zview_sgtrutledge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"765\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Sergeant Rutledge <\/i><\/b>(1960)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>John Ford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck, <\/strong>novelization <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3KIkYjM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SERGEANT RUTLEDGE<\/a> by <strong>James Warner Bellah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode, Constance Towers, Billie Burke, Juano Hernandez, Willis Bouchey, Carleton Young, Judson Pratt, Phil Adams, Rafer Johnson\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Toby Michaels.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>&#8220;I want the truth about that night.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First Sergeant Braxton Rutledge (Strode) stands accused of the rape and murder of Lucy Dabney (Michaels) and the murder of her father, Major Custis Dabney.\u00a0 Despite being a respected and decorated soldier, the evidence points to Sergeant Rutledge&#8217;s guilt.\u00a0 He was wounded and seen leaving the scene of the crime before going AWOL.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now on trial, with an mob ready to hang him, Sergeant Braxton knows he has little hope, despite his claims of innocence.\u00a0 Who is going to believe a black man when he says he didn&#8217;t rape and kill a young white girl and her father?\u00a0 Lt. Tom Cantrell (Hunter), Rutledge&#8217;s commanding officer has everything stacked against him as he works to prove Rutledge is innocent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was Billie (best known as Glinda the Good Witch in <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>) Burke&#8217;s last film role.<\/p>\n<p>Rafer Johnson, who plays Corporal Klump, won a Gold Medal in the 1960 Olympics in the decathlon.<\/p>\n<p>Toby Michaels plays Lucy Dabney, the young girl who was raped and murdered.\u00a0 Michaels is not listed in the credits.<\/p>\n<p>The reveal of who committed the murder is worthy of Perry Mason.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Sergeant Rutledge <\/i><\/b>(1960) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z061624zview_sgtrutledge2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergeant Rutledge (1960) Director: John Ford Screenplay: James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck, novelization SERGEANT RUTLEDGE by James Warner Bellah Stars:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36003,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35983\/revisions\/36003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}