Movie
Buffalo Soldiers
Synopsis
Frank Military and Susan Rhinehart scripted this western, a look back at the post-Civil War Black cavalry troops known as the Buffalo Soldiers, the fierce fighting unit previously covered in a PBS four-parter (1970) and an NBC pilot (1979). In the New Mexico Territory, ex-slave Sgt. Wyatt (Danny Glover) and the Buffalo soldiers arrest Captain Draper (Robert Knott) and other Texas Rangers, but politics mean the Rangers are quietly freed later. Back at Fort Craig, Wyatt reports to anti-black General Pike (Tom Bower) and Col. Grierson (Bob Gunton), a white responsible for assembling and supporting the black regiment. A search is underway for Indian chief Victorio (Harrison Lowe). Indian prophet Nana (Chesley Wilson) is tortured in an effort to get him to reveal Victorio's whereabouts. Determining that Victorio is at Rattlesnake Springs, the Buffalo Soldiers head in that direction for a confrontation. Filmed in the desert of Arizona's Cochise County, Buffalo Soldiers premiered December 7, 1997 on TNT.
Cast
- Danny Glover
- Carl Lumbly
- Glynn Turman
- Mykelti Williamson
- Michael Warren
- Bob Gunton
- Timothy Busfield
- Robert Knott
- Tom Bower
- Lamont Bentley
- Gabriel Casseus
- Matt Ross
- Clifton Powell
- Harrison Lowe
- David Jean Thomas
- Chesley Wilson
- Mike Warren
- Dutch Lunak
- Mark Bustamante
- Matthew Wilson
- Eddie Dunlop
- William Wages
- Michael T. Boyd
- Tim Cooney
- Pen Densham
- David R. Ginsburg
- Richard Barton Lewis
- Susan Rhinehart
- Michael Baugh
- Frank Military
- Reuben Cannon
- Danny Glover
- Ilene Kahn
- John Watson
