Sergeant Rutledge

There was a moment about halfway through this film when I thought it was going to stand as one of John Ford’s greatest triumphs. If the movie had simply kept to the actual story it was trying to tell, I probably would have kept onto that opinion, but the decision to make a courtroom drama out of it and falling into some of the worst tropes of the genre hobbled it far too much. The overall movie ends up a good look at a complex situation with wonderfully drawn and performed characters, but th...